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Anti-Pinch Window Lift Automotive Electronics Project
Automotive Electronics In automotive electronics networking, the commonly networking standard used is called CAN or controller area network which uses a baud rate of up to 1Mbps. This speed is needed in the control of engine and other critical components of the automobile that requires fast transfer of information. However, there are some areas of control which does not require that kind of speed and hence a slower speed standard can be utilised to save control cost. Some of these areas are the mirrors control, Window lift, seat control and door lock amongst others. Due to this requirements, a consortium was formed in 1998 consisting of 5 automotive manufacturers (Volvo, BMW, Audi, VW and Daimler-Chrysler), 1 tool supplier (VCT) and 1 semiconductor supplier (Motorola) to look into this. As a result, the LIN (Local Interconnect Network) specifications was finalised on 2 February 2000. The first version of LIN was 1.1 and currently version 2.0 is in use. The most recent development in LIN is the use of it over the vehicle's battery line using a DC-LIN transceiver. Some of the main features of LIN are listed below.
Anti-Pinch Window Lift Automotive Electronics Project One of the LIN application is in the anti-pinch window lift control. The application note from Microchip uses LIN 2.0 protocol in its implementation example. The microcontroller used is PIC16F688, a 14 pin flash based CMOS device with 4096 words program memory, 256 bytes of static RAM, 256 bytes of EEPROM, 12 I/O, 1 8-bit timer, 1 16-bit timer and 8 channels of 10 bit ADC. A LIN bus transceiver is used
for the slave bus driver to connect to network. Details of the project with its source code and schematics can be obtained
from
Microchip (Anti-Pinch Window Lift Automotive Electronics) website.
LED Battery Level Indicator Project
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