3.1 Overview

This section summarizes the PL360G55CF-EK board design. It introduces system-level concepts, such as power supply, MCU, PLC coupling, peripherals and interface board.

PL360G55CF-EK is a PLC modem board based on the PL360 transceiver and on the SAMG55 ARM Cortex-M4 RISC processor. This evaluation board can be used as a PLC modem reference design for modular smart meter architectures; or, in any case to provide a platform to develop a complete communications system over PLC technology.