RS-485/RS-422 transceiver for 5 V industrial buses
10 Mbps signaling — what it buys on the bus
At 10 Mbps the SN65HVD06D handles high-speed polling and data-logging links where slower transceivers (e.g., 250 kbps or 1 Mbps variants) would bottleneck the update rate. The half-duplex topology works well for multi-drop RS-485 networks where only one node talks at a time. Keep the stub length short and terminate properly at 120 Ω to avoid reflections at this edge rate.
Lifecycle status — active, no LTB concern
TI lists the SN65HVD06D as Active.