Always have a breakout box on hand when building serial cables from scratch.
Direction | DTE |
Abbr. | NAME |
--- | 1 | -- | Protection/chassis/frame ground (ground to shell) |
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2 | TxD | Transmitted Data |
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3 | RxD | Received Data |
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4 | RTS | Request To Send |
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5 | CTS | Clear To Send |
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6 | DSR | Data Set Ready (aka DCE Ready) |
--- | 7 | GND | Signal Ground |
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8 | DCD | Data Carrier Detect (aka Carrier Detect/CD) |
--- | 9 | -- | Reserved |
--- | 10 | -- | Reserved for data set testing |
--- | 11 | -- | Unassigned |
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12 | SCF | Secondary Received Line Signal Detector |
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13 | SCB | Secondary Clear to Send |
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14 | SBA | Secondary Transmitted Data |
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15 | DB | Transmission Signal Element Timing (DCE Source |
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16 | SBB | Secondary Received Data |
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17 | DD | Receiver Signal Element Timing (DCE Source) |
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18 | -- | Local Loopback |
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19 | SCA | Secondary Request to Send |
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20 | DTR | Data Terminal Equipment Ready |
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21 | CG | Signal Quality Detector |
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22 | -- | Ring Indicator |
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23 | CH/CI | Data Signal Rate Selector |
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24 | DA | Transmit Signal Element Timing |
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25 | -- | Test Mode |
Received by DTE
Transmitted
by DTE