Features

  • PL360 is a compact and highly efficient device for a wide range of Smart Grid applications such as smart metering (smart meters and data concentrators), lighting, industrial/home automation, home and building energy management systems, solar energy and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) charging stations, among others
  • PL360 used as G3-PLC or PRIME device includes enhanced features such as additional robust modes and frequency band extension (up to 472 kHz)
  • PL360MB board mounts a PL360 transceiver and a SAM4CMS16C ARM Cortex M4 microcontroller. This development board provides a full featured platform to develop a complete communications system based on PLC technology, and lets designers evaluate the accuracy of single phase energy metering SoC and develop code for smart energy applications. PL360MB board provides support for:
    • PLC band characterization
    • Noise level measurement
    • PLC and metrology sensitivity level measurement
    • Maximum reachable distance
    • Power consumption
    • Check PLC performance in different bands (CENELEC, FCC, ARIB) setting different PLC coupling boards (provided with this evaluation kit)
    • Evaluate the high accuracy of single phase energy metering measurements with CT, shunt or Rogowski coil sensors
    • Opto Port Interface compliant with ANSI C12.20 protocol
    • Metering Pulses output pins (Wh, VArh, VAh)
    • Battery-backed Real-Time Clock (RTC)
    • Power fail detection
    • On board Relay Driver circuitry
  • PL360MB board can be supplied with 100/115/230 VAC 50-60 Hz power input
  • PL360MB board includes a JTAG interface for MCU debugging and programming purposes and two debugging UARTs. And also it provides battery backup and a slow crystal oscillator to support SAM4CMS16C embedded RTC and low power modes. Several wake-up conditions are available, such as mains crossover detection, voltage rails recovery condition, anti-tampering sources (TMP0 pad) and Force Wake-up (FWUP) pin