As a real-world example, I this article is part one of several articles that will step through a basic RT600 hardware design and bring-up.   I find this to be a very useful exercise as high-end MCU’s can be overwhelming, especially to those coming from a traditional MCU background.   The goal here is to develop a simple “minimal configuration” example and build it for a demonstration.   

The Local Interconnect Network (LIN) was developed as a complementally bus standard to the Controller Area Network (CAN bus) to address the need for a cost-efficient network for lower performance devices within the vehicle.  While the CAN network was already in place within vehicles, its high bandwidth and advanced error detection capabilities were overkill (and thus, cost-prohibitive) for lower performance applications such as seat and window controllers.