Patent ID: 7937516

Claim:
An integrated circuit comprising: a base chip including one or more circuits configured to receive a vehicle battery voltage; convert the vehicle battery voltage to a regulated voltage; provide the regulated voltage as an output of the integrated circuit; monitor the vehicle battery voltage; provide a reset signal in response to the monitoring of the vehicle battery voltage; receive analog signals from a serial communication interface/universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (SCI/UART) interface, the analog signals corresponding to data formatted for a Local Interconnection Network (LIN) protocol; identify individual bytes from a digital data signal; identify a LIN protocol header from at least one of the individual bytes; detect a bit rate for the received analog signals in response to the detected LIN protocol header and with reference to a clock signal; convert the analog signals to a digital data signal in response to the detected bit rate; perform a serial to parallel conversion on the digital data signal; and provide the parallel-converted digital data signal as an output of the integrated circuit.