document updated 18 years ago, on Apr 5, 2006
I2C
Built in, though it might be nice to extend it. Also, it'd be nice to know how to build a serial-I2C bridge with a microcontroller.
Presentation on I2C
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CAN bus
This is an example parallel <-> CAN converter.
A 82527 driver chip can be used, but at 44 pins, it looks quite complicated.
A slide presentation on the CAN protocol can be found here.