115 kbps full-duplex transceiver — the field-bus workhorse
It handles one driver and one receiver on a 5 V supply rail, with a data rate capped at 115 kbps.
For a BOM line, this is a clean commit — no last-time-buy planning needed, no surplus-channel scramble on the horizon.
SOIC-14 — hand-solderable, field-swappable
Pin pitch is 1.27 mm, so orientation is easy to verify by eye before powering up.
