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RS485 driver doesn't have balanced Tpdhl and Tpdlh

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: SN75LBC172

We are using the 75LBC172, running at 15Mbps. We are driving about 4m of shielded 100 ohm cable, with multiple loads at the end. 100 ohms resistor termination at both ends of the cable, but not on the very short stub loads near the far end. We are seeing too much common mode noise generated by the driver, because the driver output delay high-to-low is about 2ns faster then the driver output delay low-to-high. Both the + and - outputs show the same skew, so the common mode summation of them has a pretty good size blip induced on the cable shield.

 Why is there so much skew, what can I do about it? It is causing too much EMI.

 

  • Louis,

    the 2ns difference you quote are actually impressive for this part. Its data sheet does not specify the actual difference between the two outputs but the total differential output delay is somewhere above 20ns.

    There is an improved and also more expensive version, the SN75LBC172A. Now its data sheet specifies a maximum difference between tplh and tphl of 2ns.

    1) you can try this device.

    2) you can try slit termination where you use 2 x 50 ohms resistors at each cable end, and connect the summing or mid point of both resistors via a small pF capacitor to ground, basically a common-mode filter.

    let me know how this works.

    regards,

    thomas

  •   Louis,

    Sorry for the typo, it's called Split Termination. You might want to try different capacitor values to see the effect on the signal quality.

    Hope this helps. - Thomas