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Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Linear Technology Corp | Subject: LTC2859 and LTC2861
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 09 June 2006

RS485 transceivers need no termination
resistors

Half- and full-duplex RS485 transceivers feature switchable integrated termination.

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC2859 and LTC2861, half-duplex and full-duplex RS485 transceivers with switchable, integrated termination Traditional RS485 networks require 120ohm termination resistors to be installed by the end user based on the physical layout of the twisted-pair wires and the placement of the nodes