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)