SLOS346O MARCH 2001 – April 2018 SN65HVD230 , SN65HVD231 , SN65HVD232
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Electromagnetic compatibility is essential in many applications while still making use of unshielded twisted pair bus cable to reduce system cost. Slope control mode was added to the SN65HVD230 and SN65HVD231 devices to reduce the electromagnetic interference produced by the rise and fall times of the driver and resulting harmonics. These rise and fall slopes of the driver outputs can be adjusted by connecting a resistor from RS (pin 8) to ground or to a logic low voltage, as shown in Figure 32. The slope of the driver output signal is proportional to the pin's output current. This slope control is implemented with an external resistor value of 10 kΩ to achieve a ~15 V/μs slew rate, and up to 100 kΩ to achieve a ~2.0 V/μs slew rate as displayed in Figure 33.