General Information: Structure

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.

Fig 1: Local Interconnect Network (LIN) Structure

Courtesy of MITSUBISHI MOTOR SALES OF AMERICA.

Master and slave ECUs are connected to the LIN bus lines. The master ECU is the ETACS^*1 -ECU, and the slave ECUs are the column switch (column-ECU), the power window main switch, the sunroof-ECU^*2 and the lighting control sensor^*3 . The master ECU requests these slave ECUs to communicate each other via communication lines.

NOTE:

*1: ETACS (Electronic Time and Alarm Control System)
*2: Vehicles with sunroof
*3: Vehicles with auto light function