Most of the automotive buses are CAN based with proprietary higher level =
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protocols. Sometimes they are a little more standardized such as in Diese=
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Trucks where J1939 often is used bu almost never fuly standard compilant.

There is some back engineered info on the net. Google for car model AND =20
CAN or something like that.

Regards
/Ake


On Thu, 27 May 2004 15:27:59 -0400, Matthew Brush <matthewbrush@YAHOO.CA>=
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wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I'm interested in researching some automotive circuits however my =20
> searches thus far have yielded nothing.  Basically, what I'm looking =20
> for, is some information on interfacing to the vehicles on-board =20
> controller to change various settings like air/fuel mixture, getting =20
> tach readings, etc.
>
> Is there a standard bus or something?  I remember seein CAN and LIN, is=
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> this something I should be looking into.  I think my problem is that I =
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> just don't know the proper search terms.  If anyone could maybe give me=
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> some search terms to look up or maybe some names of interface protocols=
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> etc, it would be greatly appreciated.  Any links would also be welcome.
>
> Thanks so much in advance.
>
> MJ Brush
>
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