What are the various types of networking technology involved in automotive electronic systems?
There are four different ones. Three of them are related in terms of networking protocol, CAN , LIN and Flexray. CAN has been around a long time and has wide acceptance in European and American cars. It is a two wire system. There has been a lot of effort in how to make it as efficient as possible. However, it does have some issues, bandwidth and sometimes reliability issues. Those can impact car production. There is a kind of a Catch-22 in that Flexray really was the answer to these issues. It had better reliability and bandwidth but the problem was it had a high cost of adoption. While CAN was lower cost and had some problems, the problem was that nobody wanted to go out and put the money into Flexray adoption because it was complex and cost more. CAN probably had a longer life than you might think it should have had. Flexray has had a slow adoption rate. There are a couple of versions of CAN. One version was as simple as a one wire system with chassis return. That had all kinds of p
