Rs-485 i/o – Zilog Z8F0411 User Manual

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MDS General-Purpose Board Development Kit

User Manual

UM016905-1207

MDS-GP Board Features

27

RS-485 I/O

Figure 14

displays the RS-485 port provided on screw terminal block J4.

This I/O can also provide power to the MDS-GP board through the 12 V
DC and GND lines, terminal 1 and terminal 4. An RS-485 termination
resistor can be enabled or disabled using jumper J5. The RS-485 driver
U8 is enabled through the RS-485_EN signal, which is controlled via
jumpers on J2 or by using the software I

2

C expander feature as described

in

Software Selectable Serial Port Options

on page 17.

Figure 14. RS-485 I/O Circuit

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