Features

• Meets or exceeds TIA/EIA-485A standard requirements

• 3 V to 5.5 V supply voltage

• Differential output voltage (VOD) exceeds 2.1 V at 5 V supply for PROFIBUS

compatibility

• High speed: up to 40 Mbps data rate

• More than 64 transceivers on the bus (up to 100 nodes)

• Integrated protections

– Fail-safe receiver (bus open, idle, and shorted)

– Thermal shutdown protection

– Hot-swap capability (with parasitic capacitance up to 100 pF)

– Bus I/O ESD protection

◦ ±12 kV IEC61000-4-2 contact discharge

◦ ≥ ±8 kV HBM ESD

◦ ±4 kV IEC61000-4-4 class-A fast transient burst (EFT)

• Low quiescent current in shutdown mode

• Available in industry standard SO-8

Applications

• Factory automation and control

• Motion controllers

• Building automation and safety

• Video surveillance (building, traffic monitoring)

• Backplane busses

• Grid infrastructure

• Data acquisition (smart meters, seismic networks)