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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2024
Endress+hauser Se+co. KG, Maulburg, DE;
Gautham Karnik, Whitestown, IN (US);
Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG, Maulburg, DE;
Abstract
An interface circuit enabling communication via a differential transceiver with both differential signaling and non-differential signaling field devices connected to the same bus includes switches and control logic to enable differential signaling on the bus in a first mode and non-differential signaling on the bus in a second mode. In the second mode of non-differential signaling, the differential conductors of the bus are held at the same potential. Further in the second mode of non-differential signaling, a differential signal is created within the interface circuit from one signal of the bus and provided to the differential transceiver.