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> Some differential lines (e.g. RS-485, popular in industrial automation) use current signalling thus requiring two wires per signal.

Virtually all high-speed digital communication uses differential signalling.



Agree on that, but all high speed interconnects I know use voltage signalling.


That's orthogonal to differential or single ended, but typically the transmit side uses some form of current steering; it just goes well with it.

E.g. PCIe transmitters are HSCL, which is a form of current steering that gives the receiver exactly the voltages it needs to see at nominal currents and termination values.




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