Technical data of the LIN bus

The following table lists the important technical data of the LIN bus and those of the CAN bus for comparison.

	LIN	CAN
Access method	Master-Slave	Message oriented (Multi-Master)
Transmission rate	up to 20 k Bit / s	up to 1 M Bit / s
Message address	6 Bit	11 Bit / 29 Bit
Number of bus devices	2 to 10	2 to 32
Error detection	Checksum (2 Bit)	CRC (15 Bit)
Bus line	Single wire, 13,8 volts	Twisted pair, 5 volts