422
RS-422, also known as TIA/EIA-422, is a technical standard originated by the Electronic Industries Alliance that specifies electrical characteristics of a digital signaling circuit. It was intended to replace the older RS-232C standard with a standard that offered much higher speed, better immunity from noise, and longer cable lengths. RS-422 systems can transmit data at rates as high as 10 Mbit/s, or may be sent on cables as long as 1,500 meters at lower rates. It is closely related to RS-423, which used the same signaling systems but on a different wiring arrangement.
RS-422 specifies differential signaling, with every data line paired with a dedicated return line. It is the voltage difference between these two lines that define the mark and space, rather than, as in RS-232, the difference in voltage between a data line and a local ground. As the ground voltage can differ at either end of the cable, this required RS-232 to use large +5 and -5 voltages. Moving to dedicated return lines and always defining ground in reference to the sender allowed RS-422 to use 0.4 V, allowing it to run at much higher speeds. RS-423 differed primarily in that it had a single return pin instead of one for each data pin.
RS-422 and RS-423 had originally planned to use the same DB25 connector as RS-232, but over time the number of required pins grew and the standards split out the definition into the RS-449 effort. This produced an unwieldy system and later returned to DB25 in the RS-530 standard.
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RS-422 specifies differential signaling, with every data line paired with a dedicated return line. It is the voltage difference between these two lines that define the mark and space, rather than, as in RS-232, the difference in voltage between a data line and a local ground. As the ground voltage can differ at either end of the cable, this required RS-232 to use large +5 and -5 voltages. Moving to dedicated return lines and always defining ground in reference to the sender allowed RS-422 to use 0.4 V, allowing it to run at much higher speeds. RS-423 differed primarily in that it had a single return pin instead of one for each data pin.
RS-422 and RS-423 had originally planned to use the same DB25 connector as RS-232, but over time the number of required pins grew and the standards split out the definition into the RS-449 effort. This produced an unwieldy system and later returned to DB25 in the RS-530 standard.
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