A data bus subscriber connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus. The data bus subscriber has a status signal input for receiving a first status signal value from a downstream data bus subscriber or a terminator, a status signal output for providing a second status signal value to an upstream data bus subscriber or to a local bus master, wherein the data bus subscriber is adapted to provide the second status signal value based on a logical link of a communication readiness of the data bus subscriber and the first status signal value. The invention further relates to a corresponding method and a local bus.

An input/output unit for data acquisition in a field bus system includes a microcontroller that has at least one integrated synchronous serial bus interface and a control device for direct memory access. A signal source for a digital signal is connectable to a digital data input master input, slave output (MISO) of the at least one synchronous serial bus interface. The first synchronous serial interface reads in the digital signal present at the data input MISO at a first clock rate that corresponds to a data transmission rate of the at least one synchronous serial bus interface. The control device for direct memory access forwards the read-in data words to a buffer memory, and periodically fetches the read-in data words from the buffer memory and forwards the read-in data words to a second synchronous serial bus interface or to another bus interface.

A transmitting/receiving device for a bus system and a method for reducing an oscillation tendency in the transition between different bit states. The transmitting/receiving device has a transmitting stage for transmitting a transmission signal to a first bus wire of a bus of the bus system and for transmitting the transmission signal as an inverse signal to a second bus wire of the bus, and an asymmetry reduction module for reducing an asymmetry of bus signals arising in the bus wires. The asymmetry reduction module includes a polarity reversing diode, whose cathode is connected to the cathode of a reverse polarity diode of the transmitting stage. The asymmetry reduction module switches a potential of the cathode of the polarity reversing diode to a potential that is greater than or equal to a level of a recessive bus state.

An embodiment method of operating a CAN bus comprises coupling a first device and second devices to the CAN bus via respective CAN transceiver circuits, and configuring the respective CAN transceiver circuits to set the CAN bus to a recessive level during transmission of messages via the CAN bus by the respective first device or second devices.

A vehicle component for providing at least one service in a vehicle, having: a processing unit for carrying out data processing in order to perform the at least one service, a data interface for connection to at least one data transmission network of the vehicle in order to receive and/or transmit data for data processing during performance of the service, and in order to receive a service discovery message for service coordination in the data transmission network, and a prefilter unit for carrying out a relevance test of the received service discovery message in order to forward the service discovery message to the processing unit as a function of the relevance test.

The disclosure relates to a transceiver device for communicating between a network protocol controller and a network bus, the transceiver device comprising: transceiver circuitry configured to transmit and receive data on the network bus using a first physical layer protocol; and monitoring circuitry configured to determine a measured property of the network bus, in which the transceiver device is configured to: determine whether the measured property indicates an error condition; and reconfigure the transceiver circuitry to transmit and receive data on the network bus using a second physical layer protocol in response to determining the error condition.

Circuits and techniques are described for high-speed transceivers (e.g., repeaters such as re-drivers or re-timers) that ensure that the instantaneous voltage at an input or output of a connected device remains within a desired or specified voltage range.

In an embodiment a method for operating a processing system includes programming, by a microprocessor during a CAN FD Light data transmission phase, a control register of a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) communication interface of the processing system in order to activate a master mode; generating, by the microprocessor during the CAN FD Light data transmission phase, a transmission CAN FD Light frame; storing, by the microprocessor during the CAN FD Light data transmission phase, the transmission CAN FD Light frame to a memory; and activating, by the microprocessor during the CAN FD Light data transmission phase a first DMA channel so that the first DMA channel sequentially transfers the transmission CAN FD Light frame from the memory to a transmission shift register in the SPI communication interface.

An active sound design (ASD) tuning device and a method thereof may include an ASD device that generates a virtual engine sound for each vehicle situation and a control device that outputs a composite sound by correcting and synthesizing the virtual engine sound and an internal sound measured for each vehicle situation based on a binaural vehicle impulse response (BVIR).

A Controller Area Network (CAN) transceiver includes a receiver configured to determine a voltage differential signal from analog signalling received from a CAN bus and configured to provide a digital output signal at a receiver output to a CAN controller based on the voltage differential signal. The receiver includes arming circuitry configured to place the receiver in an armed or unarmed state based on the voltage differential signal, a first threshold corresponding to a first CAN protocol, and a second threshold corresponding to a second CAN protocol. When the receiver is in the unarmed state, a first digital signal indicative of activity on the CAN bus is provided based on a comparison between the voltage differential signal and the first threshold, and when in the armed state, the first digital signal is provided based on comparisons between the voltage differential signal and each of the first and the second thresholds.