The intended application of this device and signaling technique is for point-to-point and multidrop baseband data transmission over controlled impedance media of approximately 100 . The transmission media can be printed-circuit board traces, backplanes, or cables. The large number of drivers integrated into the same substrate, along with the low pulse skew of balanced signaling, allows extremely precise timing alignment of clock and data for synchronous parallel data transfers. When used with the companion 16- or 8-channel receivers, the SN65LVDS386 or SN65LVDS388, over 300 million data transfers per second in single-edge clocked systems are possible with very little power. (Note: The ultimate rate and distance of data transfer is dependent upon the attenuation characteristics of the media, the noise coupling to the environment, and other system characteristics.)