Texas Instruments Power Line Communication Winning Solution

Texas Instruments Power Line Communication Winning Solution provides the flexibility of a single hardware and software design that can support multiple standards and a single global platform, reducing research and development costs and speeding time to market. This TI winning solution allows designers to easily create PLC modem systems that provide the best-performing communication platform for today's Smart Grid networks. Modern PLC networks utilize OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) modulation techniques to increase data throughput rates and reliability in inherently noisy environments such as electric grids. This Power Line Communication solution includes a TMS320F2806x Piccolo microcontroller that provides the power of the C28x core and CLA, couple with integrated control peripherals. The solution also features a fully integrated high-output Tx/Rx analog front end, a TPS3828-33 processor supervisory circuit, a TPS62240 step-down converter, and an SN74LVC2G07 dual buffer/driver.

Features

Complete, certified and field-tested PLC modem for PRIME/G3 PLC standards
Fully integrated high-output Tx/Rx analog front end for PLC supports FSK, SFSK, OFDM (PRIME, G3 compliant); Direct digital interface to TI PLC processor with up to 20-VPP output at 1.5A
Optimized F2806x Piccolo MCU provides the power of the C28x core and CLA, coupled with integrated control peripherals in low pin-count devices
Circuit initialization and timing supervision processor-based solution
TMDSPLCKIT-V3 C2000™ Power Line Modem Developer's Kit includes two PLC modems, PRIME or G3 PLC software, built-in USB JTAG emulation, all necessary power and connection cables, 32KB limited Code Composer Studio™ (CCS) integrated development environment