RS-485 transceiver for industrial bus lines
At 1 Mbps this transceiver covers the common industrial fieldbus speeds — Profibus DP at 12 Mbps is faster, but for Modbus RTU, BACnet MS/TP, or simple sensor polling loops at 115.2 kbps to 1 Mbps it is right in the sweet spot. The 5 V nominal supply is a hard constraint: if your microcontroller or UART runs at 3.3 V, you will need level translation on the logic-side pins (RO, DI, RE, DE). The part itself is not 3.3 V tolerant on the supply.
Package and rework — 8-SOIC with standard pitch
No thermal pad or exposed paddle to worry about — just standard 0.050-inch pitch land pattern.