The power-line soft-modem technology supported by the board enables consumer and industrial products to communicate using the same wiring that provides power, to create an instant network at a low system and deployment cost.
Based on the scalable dsPIC33F digital signal controller (DSC) architecture, the board uses a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation scheme and operates in the popular consumer frequency band. The soft modem interfaces with Microchip’s Explorer 16 development board and is supported with royalty-free schematics, demo code and software in source-code format, all of which can be downloaded from www.microchip.com/get/FTWN.
The trend towards power-line communication is growing in response to increasing market demands for connected products. Applications for power-line communication can be implemented wherever there is an energy flow, such as in-home energy monitoring and control, industrial power-supply controllers, server farms, street lighting and more. Microchip’s new development kit has two nodes for out-of-the-box point-to-point communication, enabling designers to run a selection of demos within minutes. The BPSK modulation scheme provides a robust method which performs well in noisy environments and supports software selection of the data rate.
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