List of network buses

List of electrical characteristics of single collision domain segment "slow speed" network buses:

Name Multidrop Max nodes Electrical type Cable type Max bitrate [kbit/s] Length at max bitrate Max length [m] Bitrate at max length
0 0 0
EIA-485 (UART based) Y 256 EIA-485 Twisted pair 1000 kbit/s 1330 m 64 kbit/s
SCSI-1/2 Y 8 Open collector Ribbon cable 20 000 kbit/s 3 m 6 m 5 Mbit/s/ch
SCSI Ultra2 Y 16 Differential Ribbon cable with twisted pairs 40 000 kbit/s 12 m
LIN[1] Y 16 Open collector open collector with pull-up to 12V car supply 19.2 kbit/s 40 m
SIOX Y 62 19.2 kbit/s
I²C Y 127 or 1023 Open collector 5000 kbit/s 7.6 m
SMBus Y 128 Open collector 100 kbit/s
PMBus Y 128 Open collector 400 kbit/s
10BASE5 Y 100 Single ended RG-8X coaxial 10 000 kbit/s 500 m 500 m
10BASE2 Y 30 Single ended RG-58 coaxial 10 000 kbit/s 185 m 185 m
CAN Y 128 ISO 11898-2 Differential Twisted pair 1000 kbit/s 40 m 1000 m[2] 50 kbit/s
DMX512-A N 32 EIA-485 Twisted pair 120 Ω[3] 250 kbit/s 548 m 548 m (1800ft.)[4] 250 kbit/s
DCC Y 127 Single ended 5 kbit/s
RS-232 N 2 Single ended 128 kbit/s 1.5 m (approx) 15 m 19.6 kbit/s
PSI5 Y Twisted pair 189 kbit/s 12 m (approx)
1-Wire Y 248 Open collector Single conductor, with ground 16.3 kbit/s 300 m
X10 Y 256 Power line 0.05 kbit/s / 0.06 kbit/s
FlexRay Twisted pair 20 000 kbit/s
SENT[5] N 2 Single ended Single conductor, with 5 V power supply and ground async. transmission,

min. 39.216 kbits/s

5 m
SPC[6] Y 5 Single ended or

Open collector

Single conductor, with 5 V power supply and ground, shielded when using higher speeds sync. and async. transmission,

variable up to ~150 kbit/s

~0.5 m 5 m same as SENT
I3C Y 127 12 500 kbits/s
SPI Y variable up to ~10000 kbit/s

(depends strongly on physical setup)

ZZ ZZ 9999999 ZZ ZZ 9999999 9999999

The number of nodes can be limited by either number of available addresses or bus capacitance. None of the above use any analog domain modulation techniques like MLT-3 encoding, PAM-5 etc.

PSI5 designed with automation applications in mind is a bit unusual in that it uses Manchester code.

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