HD-PLC baseband IC to enable the smart home

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Interesting reading.
 

Rohm has begun development of a baseband IC compliant with HD-PLC Inside, a broadband high-speed power-line communication technology for embedding into home appliances, energy-management systems, and lighting devices to create home networks using existing power lines.

Products based on HD-PLC Inside enable low-cost, low-power, high-speed communications by simply plugging into AC outlets.

In addition to HD-PLC Inside baseband processing, the Rohm device provides an ARM7TDMI core for handling TCP/IP and other protocols, minimizing modifications required to existing systems. It also includes support for the Echonet Lite smart-home communication standard and SSL encryption. Intermittent operation is built-in, cutting power consumption by up to 30 times during standby compared to conventional power-line communication solutions.

Rohm expects samples of the new device to be available in March, 2014, with OEM quantities to follow in June, 2014.

Rohm Semiconductor, www.rohm.com

 

 
http://www.edn.com/electronics-products/other/4422585/HD-PLC-baseband-IC-to-enable-the-smart-home