Always have a breakout box on hand when building serial cables from scratch.
| Direction | DTE |
Abbr. | NAME |
| --- | 1 | -- | Protection/chassis/frame ground (ground to shell) |
| 2 | TxD | Transmitted Data | |
| 3 | RxD | Received Data | |
| 4 | RTS | Request To Send | |
| 5 | CTS | Clear To Send | |
| 6 | DSR | Data Set Ready (aka DCE Ready) | |
| --- | 7 | GND | Signal Ground |
| 8 | DCD | Data Carrier Detect (aka Carrier Detect/CD) | |
| --- | 9 | -- | Reserved |
| --- | 10 | -- | Reserved for data set testing |
| --- | 11 | -- | Unassigned |
| 12 | SCF | Secondary Received Line Signal Detector | |
| 13 | SCB | Secondary Clear to Send | |
| 14 | SBA | Secondary Transmitted Data | |
| 15 | DB | Transmission Signal Element Timing (DCE Source | |
| 16 | SBB | Secondary Received Data | |
| 17 | DD | Receiver Signal Element Timing (DCE Source) | |
| 18 | -- | Local Loopback | |
| 19 | SCA | Secondary Request to Send | |
| 20 | DTR | Data Terminal Equipment Ready | |
| 21 | CG | Signal Quality Detector | |
| 22 | -- | Ring Indicator | |
| 23 | CH/CI | Data Signal Rate Selector | |
| 24 | DA | Transmit Signal Element Timing | |
| 25 | -- | Test Mode |
Received by DTE
Transmitted
by DTE