Introduction

PL360-EK is an evaluation kit for the PL360 modem for Power Line Communication (PLC) from Microchip Technology Inc. PL360 is a multi-protocol device implementing a very flexible architecture, which allows implementation of standard and customized PLC solutions.

PL360 has been conceived to be bundled with an external Microchip MCU, which controls the PL360 PLC modem.

PL360MB is PLC multi-purpose modem board based on the PL360 transceiver and on the 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 of ATSAM4CMS16C device. Microchip provides coupling reference designs for different load options, targeting common configurations in standard frequency bands complying with existing regulations (CENELEC, FCC and ARIB).