General Information: Structure

Fig 1: Local Interconnect Network 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