JENA, Germany – GÖPEL electronic, which is well established in the automotive test market, has become a member of the LIN (Local Interconnect Network) Consortium which consists of leading OEMs and suppliers. Membership enables GÖPEL electronic to include the LIN Conformance Test for control units optionally with LIN 2.0 interface in its test systems for network characteristics (network testers) of the TESSY model range.
The LIN Conformance Test execution is additionally provided for companies which do not own their own network tester. Thus, GÖPEL electronic acts as test centre and service vendor. The Conformance Test is divided into the check of the physical and communication characteristics (physical layer and data link layer).
GÖPEL electronic has been providing various controller and system solutions for the LIN bus for a number of years: from the single PXI/PCI card 3072, the stand-alone tool basic LIN up to the utilisation of the LIN bus in complex modular test systems which support several bus systems as well as conventional signals.
The LIN Consortium was founded by Audi, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Volvo Car, Volkswagen, Volcano Communications Technologies and Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor) and various suppliers in 2000. The community’s primary objective was to define and implement another open standard for high-quality serial bus systems in vehicles. Typical application areas for LIN bus systems are vehicle control units, whereby the LIN bus’ advantages are its cost-effective development, production and application.
LIN was especially developed for the low-priced communication of intelligent sensors and actuators as well as control elements in automobiles. The bus is often used as a subsystem in the ECU networking. It is additionally applied in cases where the CAN bus is not required or its implementation would be too expensive.
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