BiSS Line follows the industrial trend of a fully digital communication, functional safety capabilities and motor power supply over a single cable. And yet, BiSS Line provides all specific features of the established BiSS C protocol. The data transmission is based on the industrial standard RS-485 and is protected by a forward error correction (FEC) against disturbances coupled from the motor line to the data line. With FEC the possible cycle time for process data of e.g. 128 bit and a cable length of up to 100m is about 62.5 μs.A BiSS Line system is composed of a single master and a single or multiple slaves. The standard BiSS Line Drive consists of a BiSS Line master (BLM), an oscillator and a RS-485 bus transceiver. The standard BiSS Line Device consists of BiSS Line slave (BLS), oscillator, RS-485 bus transceiver, DC/DC converter and a BiSS C slave(s).