EYE ON NPI - Analog Devices’ LT3960 I2C to CAN-physical transceiver #EYEonNPI @DigiKey @Adafruit

Could this week’s EYE ON NPI help you with communicating with far away I2C sensors and devices? Yes, indeed it CAN! This week we’re featuring the Analog Devices LT3960 (), a handy chip that will let you take advantage of the noise-durability of CAN with the universality of I2C. The LT3960 is a high-speed transceiver which creates the functional equivalent of a single-master I2C bus in the CAN physical layer and is powered from a single wide-ranging input voltage. Using two integrated CAN transceivers, the LT3960 creates a differential proxy for each of the single-ended I2C clock and data signals which is capable of traversing harsh or noisy environments across two twisted pairs. Please note! The LT3960 is not a I2C to CAN bus converter/adapter. It isn’t like your CAN devices will appear on an I2C bus or vice versa. It’s just a physical-layer converter: basically it lets you use your existing I2C controllers and periph