LIN MASTER breakout board LIN to CAN conversion gateway

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Customer:

I’m interested in your LIN MASTER breakout board.

I have one question about the item description which states: “LIN MASTER serves as a gateway to CAN-bus”. Could you please explain how the conversion from LIN to CAN works?

Originally submitted via email support on 15 November 2021. Migrated to the forum for community visibility.

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Soldered Support:

The description is accurate, but it requires a microcontroller, which wasn’t clearly stated.

To use LIN MASTER as a gateway to CAN-bus, you need to:

  1. Connect the LIN breakout to a microcontroller
  2. The microcontroller reads data from the LIN breakout
  3. Send that data to CAN using a CAN breakout

The data conversion from the LIN network to the CAN network happens in the microcontroller. You cannot convert between LIN and CAN networks without a microcontroller to perform the conversion.