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Engineers primarily use oscilloscopes to debug and characterize various automotive serial buses. These include the controller area network (CAN), CAN FD, CAN XL, local interconnect network (LIN), FlexRay, single-edge nibble transmission (SENT), and automotive Ethernet. An oscilloscope inherently characterizes the analog quality of these signals.

This application note from Keysight explains how to decode, trigger, and symbolically decode your buses. It also includes use-case examples for identifying errors and signal quality issues in your automotive designs.