What Does the Automotive Gateway Module Control?

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Automotive gateway module controls and coordinates protocol conversion, data exchange, fault diagnosis, and other tasks between CAN bus networks and other data networks. The gateway facilitates communication between networks with different architectures or protocols, providing network compatibility functions such as protocol conversion and data exchange. It can also be commonly referred to as a connector between networks, a protocol converter, or a data translator. The gateway can be used for both wide-area and local-area interconnections, serving as a critical computer system or device for conversion between two systems that use different protocols, data, or languages, or even have completely different architectures. The automotive gateway module coordinates data sharing between low-speed and high-speed information within the automotive network system. The gateway converts data on the local network into recognizable ASCII codes, such as OBD2 diagnostic data, to facilitate diagnostics and activate a specific control unit or local network.