{"id":1550,"date":"2026-03-10T18:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/encoder-pedia\/cose-linterfaccia-parallela\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:24:52","slug":"what-is-the-parallel-interface","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/encoder-pedia\/what-is-the-parallel-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the parallel interface?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>parallel output<\/strong>\u00a0is the standard interface for\u00a0<strong>singleturn and multiturn absolute encoders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>These encoders provide the data output regarding the position in a \u201cbit by bit\u201d encoding (according to <strong>Gray or binary<\/strong>\u00a0standards), according to the resolution of the device; parallel transmission requires indeed a wire for each bit, therefore for a higher resolution of the device there will be a higher complexity of the wiring. To reduce the number of wires, other forms of data transmission like the SSI serial interface or field bus protocols (PROFIBUS) have been implemented.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-482\" style=\"width: 847px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-482 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Binario.jpg\" alt=\"Schema dato di uscita in formato binario\" width=\"847\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Binario.jpg 847w, https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Binario-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Binario-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Binario-600x339.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Output data in binary format<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-483\" style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-483 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Gray.jpg\" alt=\"Schema dato di uscita in formato Gray\" width=\"858\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Gray.jpg 858w, https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Gray-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Gray-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Formato-Gray-600x315.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Output data in Gray format<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For further information, please check the complete <a href=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/en-PARALLEL-interface-140506.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF on-line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0parallel output\u00a0is the standard interface for\u00a0singleturn and multiturn absolute encoders. These encoders provide the data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":721,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1550","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1550\/revisions\/1555"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}