What this RS-485 transceiver brings to the bus
It signals at up to 115 kbps, which covers the common industrial fieldbus rates — Modbus RTU at 9600 or 19200 baud, BACnet MS/TP at 76800 baud, and similar multi-drop links where the total cable run can reach 1200 m. The wide supply range from 3.15 V to 5.5 V lets it sit on a 3.3 V microcontroller UART without a separate level translator, or plug straight into a legacy 5 V backplane. Receiver hysteresis is 50 mV, which helps reject noise on long stub connections.
No external level shifter, no separate transceiver supply — just one part number across both voltage domains. The 50 mV receiver hysteresis is a practical bonus: it cleans up slow edges on long cables without adding external Schmitt triggers.
Package and temperature grade — rework and environment
Surface-mount only; no through-hole option on this suffix.
That means no end-of-life notice pending, no last-time-buy deadline to manage.