Introduction

PL460-EK (EV13L63A) is an Xplained PRO extension board featuring a PL460 modem that embeds a PLC signal amplification stage, providing a highly integrated solution that reduces the total bill of materials, simplifies the layout and eases the modem design. This board enables the user to evaluate the PL460 device performance.

The PL460 was conceived to be driven by external Microchip host devices, thus providing an additional level of flexibility on the host side. The Microchip host device loads the proper PLC-protocol firmware in the PL460, then controls the modem operation. PL460-EK uses an Xplained PRO client connector to communicate with the host microcontroller (i.e., PIC32CXMT family of EK/DBs, SAM4CMx-DB family, SAME70-Xplained or SAMG55-Xplained boards).

The PL460-EK is a client companion board for the PIC32CXMT family of EK/DBs, SAM4CMx-DB family, SAME70-Xplained and SAMG55-Xplained boards. All these boards include an Xplained PRO (host) connector, and the PL460-EK includes an Xplained PRO connector accordingly (client).