Patent ID: 8750351

Claim:
A transceiver, the transceiver comprising: a transmit pin configured to receive a signal from a microcontroller; a receive pin configured to transmit a signal to the microcontroller; at least one bus pin configured to transmit and receive signalling to or from the network; a wake-up detector; an acknowledge and/or wake-up generator; and at least one switch operable to put the transceiver in a first mode of operation, wherein, in the first mode of operation, the transmit pin is connected to the wake-up detector, and the wake-up detector is configured to activate a wake-up code in accordance with a configuration information received at the transmit pin, and the receive pin is connected to an acknowledge and/or wake-up generator, which is configured to provide an acknowledge and/or wake-up signal to the receive pin based on a comparison of an actual configuration information stored in the transceiver with the received configuration information from the transmit pin.