3.1 Overview

This section summarizes the PL360MB board design. It introduces system-level concepts, such as power supply, MCU, PLC coupling, memories, peripherals and interface board.

PL360MB is PLC multi-protocol modem board based on the PL360 transceiver and on SAM4CMS16C ARM Cortex M4 microcontroller. This development board provides a full featured platform to develop a complete communications system over PLC technology and to demonstrate the high accuracy single phase energy metering functions.

Figure 3-1. PL360MB Board