Designed to accelerate time to market, reduce total cost of ownership, and enable differentiation, the adaptation includes the release of a Verified Software Add-on (VSA) with the G3-PLC protocol stack.
Smart applications, such as smart grids, smart street lighting, and building automation, are becoming increasingly complex. The immediate impact of this development is the higher cost resulting from the development, transfer, maintenance, and purchase of relevant software packages such as RTOSs, drivers, and upper-layer firmware, as well as protocol stacks for connectivity solutions. Renesas' PLC modem solution, in combination with the Synergy Platform, eliminates many of the obstacles engineers face when designing smart meters or similar smart products.
At the heart of the Synergy Platform is the Synergy Software Package (SSP), which is qualified, supported, guaranteed, and maintained by Renesas. Specialized software functions can be easily added to the SSP without any guesswork using VSA components that are verified by Renesas for SSP compatibility. System designers can begin their G3-PLC-based development at the API level using this G3-PLC VSA in combination with all other required profile elements from the SSP and additional VSAs to develop any G3-PLC-based application.
Depending on the performance level required for the final product, system designers can select from a wide range of scalable and compatible Synergy host MCUs, ranging from ARM® Cortex® M0+ (32MHz / 128KB flash / 16KB SRAM) to ARM® Cortex® M4 (240MHz / 4MB flash / 640KB SRAM). Combining Synergy MCUs with Renesas' third-generation PLC single-chip modem allows engineers to create an extremely modular, flexible, and cost-optimized system design. Any required modifications or redesigns can be carried out very cost-effectively, minimizing development, testing, and certification effort, as well as risk. This allows system designers to achieve unprecedented time to market and dedicate more time to innovation and differentiation.
Renesas' flexible single-chip PLC modem solution stands out for its robustness and flexibility. It supports any PLC protocol standard, such as PRIME 1.3.6 and PRIME 1.4 with full-band coverage, as well as G3-PLC, for all global frequency bands, including CENELEC A, FCC, and ARIB. For more complex IoT applications, the solution even allows system designers to implement dual-path communication. Exceptional signal quality, wide dynamic range, and noise immunity are provided by the built-in analog front end and enhanced DSP algorithms, which can handle dedicated wide-spectrum noise profiles.
Renesas provides a small PLC module with a Pmod™ interface that utilizes the Renesas R9A06G037GNP single-chip PLC modem, which can be combined with any Synergy development kit to form a complete evaluation and development environment. The Peripheral Module Interface (Pmod™), developed by Digilent Inc., is an open standard interface used to connect low-frequency, low-I/O peripheral modules to host controller boards.
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PLC (Powerline Communication) modem based on the Renesas Synergy™ platform
Renesas Electronics Europe presents an adaptation of its PLC modem solution to the Renesas Synergy™ platform, a complete and qualified platform with fully integrated software, a scalable family of microcontrollers (MCUs), and unified development tools for embedded and IoT applications
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