{"id":1570,"date":"2026-03-06T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/encoder-pedia\/cose-linterfaccia-elettronica\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:45:05","slug":"what-is-the-electronic-interface","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/encoder-pedia\/what-is-the-electronic-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the electronic interface?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>electronic interface<\/strong>\u00a0consists in all the input and output components that allow both the\u00a0<strong>power supply<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>transmission of electric pulses<\/strong>\u00a0of the encoder.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Incremental encoder electronics\" href=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/encoder-pedia\/what-is-an-incremental-encoder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incremental system<\/a><\/strong>, the transmission of output signals occurs through one or more channels and could be of different kinds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NPN and NPN open collector<\/li>\n<li>PNP and PNP open collector<\/li>\n<li>Push-Pull<\/li>\n<li>Line driver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the absolute system, the transmission of output signals could be\u00a0<strong>analogue<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/encoder-pedia\/what-is-the-analogue-interface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voltage\/current<\/a><\/strong>) or\u00a0<strong>digital\u00a0<a title=\"Parallel electronics\" href=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/encoder-pedia\/what-is-the-parallel-interface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parallel<\/a>, digital\u00a0<\/strong><strong>serial\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong><a title=\"SSI encoder's electronics\" href=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/encoder-pedia\/what-is-the-ssi-interface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SSI<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or<a title=\"What is BiSS interface\" href=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/encoder-pedia\/what-is-the-biss-interface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00a0BiSS<\/strong><\/a>), or\u00a0<strong>field-bus<\/strong>\u00a0type (Eltra employs\u00a0<a title=\"What is Profibus protocol\" href=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/encoder-pedia\/what-is-the-profibus-protocol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Profibus DP<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a title=\"What is Profinet interface\" href=\"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/encoder-pedia\/what-is-the-profinet-protocol\/\"><strong>Profinet<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0communication protocol for its encoders).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0electronic interface\u00a0consists in all the input and output components that allow both the\u00a0power supply\u00a0and the\u00a0transmission [&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-1570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1570","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=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/eltra.bfenterprise.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1570\/revisions\/1643"}],"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=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}