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.
