Date: 18/12/2008

Industry's first certified LIN 2.1 transceiver

NXP Semiconductors announced new LIN transceiver TJA1021. TJA1021 is the industry's first device to be certified according to the recently established LIN 2.1 specification.

The TJA1021 was tested against new criteria released in October 2008 and it incorporates new criteria including enhanced transport layer criteria, addition of diagnostics and backwards compatibility.

NXP also claims that the new product is energy efficiency and provides reduced component cost. The TJA1021 sets a new standard in ESD performance with 8kV HBM and 6kV, in accordance with the IEC 61000-4-2 standard. This avoids the need to build external ESD protection, thus reducing overall system costs.

Other features of this transceiver are:

1. Low sleep current, low leakage current and low operation voltage that contributes into reduced power consumption and less CO2 emission in the car
2. Low sleep power consumption that will significantly reduce the battery drain when vehicle is parked.
3. Low operation voltage down to 5.5V that will make the device a candidate in engine start related applications such as start stop that can help to further reduce CO2 on the system level
4. Backwards PIN compatibility with TJA1020

Availability: The TJA1021 is in full production.

For more information, visit: www.nxp.com