"This book provides a thorough and comprehensive introduction to automotive multiplexed network buses, covering the technical principles, components, implementation issues and applications. A valuable guide to embedded systems for a range of applications, Multiplexed Networks for Embedded Systems: CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Safe-by-Wire ... is essential reading for electronics engineers and researchers developing electronics for the automotive industry. It is also useful for practising aerospace engineers and other practitioners interested in the application of network technologies, and advanced students taking courses on automotive and embedded system design."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references and index
CAN : from concept to reality -- The CAN bus : general -- CAN : its protocol, its properties, its novel features -- The CAN physical layer -- Medium, implementation and physical layers in CAN -- Components, applications and tools for CAN -- Time-triggered protocols : FlexRay -- New multiplexed bus concepts : LIN, FlexRay, Fail-safe SBC, Safe-by-Wire -- LIN : local interconnect network -- Think 'bus', think 'fail-safe SBC', 'gateways' ... -- Safe-by-wire -- Audio-video buses -- RF communication and wireless mini-networks