The TJA1044 is part of the Mantis family of high-speed CAN transceivers. It provides an interface between a Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol controller and the physical two-wire CAN bus. The transceiver is designed for high-speed CAN applications in the automotive industry, providing the differential transmit and receive capability to (a microcontroller with) a CAN protocol controller.

The TJA1044 offers a feature set optimized for 12 V automotive applications, with significant improvements over NXP's first- and second-generation CAN transceivers, such as the TJA1040 and TJA1042, and excellent electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) performance. Additionally, the TJA1044 features:

• Ideal passive behavior to the CAN bus when the supply voltage is off

• A very low-current Standby mode with bus wake-up capability

• Excellent EMC performance, even without a common mode choke

• Variants with a VIO pin can be interfaced directly with microcontrollers with supply voltages from 3.3 V to 5 V