Atmel's ATA6617, featuring maximum integration, is the first member of its an upcoming LIN System-in-Package (SiP) family.

The ATA6617 combines Atmel's LIN System Basis Chip (SBC) ATA6624 – including LIN transceiver, voltage regulator, watchdog – and a AVR microcontroller, the ATtiny167 with 16k flash memory, in a single package.

With this integrated system, customers can create complete LIN nodes using just one IC.

The LIN SiP is based on Atmel’s second-generation LIN IP with excellent EMC and ESD performance.  It is optimized for low-cost LIN slave applications and enables system cost reductions of up to 25%.

A powerful LIN UART with integrated hardware routines simplifies protocol stack handling and limits the interrupt generation, thus reducing the microcontroller load and flash memory consumption.

Simple assignment of an individual physical LIN node address, which is important in applications such as air-conditioning systems, can be realized by using an integrated 100 microampere current source.

More information: http://www.atmel.de/automotive_application_area/?source=696