Silent mode is commonly referred to as listen only and receive only mode. In this mode, the CAN driver is disabled but the receiver is fully operational and CAN communication is unidirectional into the device. The receiver is translating the differential signal from CANH and CANL to a digital output on the RXD terminal.

In silent mode, PWRON and Local Failure flags are indicated on the nFAULT pin.

If the device enters silent mode from standby mode, the SWE timer does not halt and the device needs to be transitioned to normal mode before the SWE timer expires. If the SWE timer expires in silent mode, the device is transitioned to sleep mode.