Introduction

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

The PL460-EK board was conceived to be driven by external Microchip host devices. Therefore, 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. The PL460-EK board uses an Xplained Pro client connector to communicate with the host microcontroller, for example, the PIC32CXMT family of EK/DBs, SAM4CMx-DB family, SAME70-Xplained boards, and others.