TIDM-INDUSTRIAL-PLC, Power Line Communications (PLC) Lite Reference Design for Industrial Applications

TIDM-INDUSTRIAL-PLC, Power Line Communications (PLC) is a new option for adding communications to industrial equipment such as solar arrays. PLC Lite offers higher data throughput than earlier forms of PLC and greater robustness for transmission across noisy electric lines by using OFDM PHY technology. This design is based upon a C2000 control CARD and an analog front end for PLC. The C2000 MCU executes the entire PLC Lite software stack. TIDM-INDUSTRIAL-PLC achieves up to 21 kbps data rates across AC or DC power lines compared to traditional SFSK PLC solutions (2-5 kbps) all while decreasing the overall BOM cost of a typical PLC modem