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... Consumer-band BPSK 7.2 kbps © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. PLM PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board User’s Guide DS70656A ...
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... PICtail, REAL ICE, rfLAB, Select Mode, Total Endurance, TSHARC, UniWinDriver, WiperLock and ZENA are trademarks of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. and other countries. SQTP is a service mark of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. All other trademarks mentioned herein are property of their respective companies. ...
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... A.2 Consumer-band BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board Layout and Schematics ...................................................................................... 30 Appendix B. Bill of Materials (BOM) Appendix C. Troubleshooting Guide C.1 Frequently asked questions ......................................................................... 35 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD USER’S GUIDE Table of Contents ...
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... Consumer-band BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board User’s Guide NOTES: DS70656A-page 4 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... Appendix B. “Bill of Materials (BOM)” daughter board and the HV adapter. • Appendix C. “Troubleshooting Guide” and methods to resolve them. © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD USER’S GUIDE Preface NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS ...
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... Click the Power tab Press <Enter>, <F1> #define START autoexec.bat C:\mcc18\h _asm, _endasm, static -Opa+, -Opa 0xFF, ‘A’ file.o, where can be any file valid filename mcc18 [options] file [options] errorlevel {0|1} var_name [, var_name...] void main (void) { ... } © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... Business of Microchip – Product selector and ordering guides, latest Microchip press releases, listings of seminars and events; and listings of Microchip sales offices, distributors and factory representatives © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ® Assembler, Linker and Utilities for PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC ® ...
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... Technical support is available through the web site at: http://www.microchip.com/support DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORY Revision A (March 2011) This is the initial release of the Consumer-band BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board User’s Guide. DS70656A-page 8 ® C compiler; MPASM™ and MPLAB 16-bit © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ® ...
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... Chapter 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing Microchip Technology’s Consumer-band BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail Plus Daughter Board. This daughter board provides a low-cost solution for implementing a Power Line Modem (PLM) using the Microchip Explorer 16 Development Board. The daughter board is used with the Explorer 16 Development Board to demonstrate a software-based PLM implementing the Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) modulation technique ...
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... Components” CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD ® REAL ICE™ in-circuit emulator or ICD3 or PICkit3 should be WARNING Failure to heed this warning could result in bodily harm. for detailed information on the © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... Figure 1-4. The capacitor used in the coupler should be rated to handle the instan- taneous voltage between the two phases. Using an X-2 or X-1 rating capacitor is highly recommended. © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. Explorer 16 Development Board Daughter Board dsPIC33F PIM Power Supply ...
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... DS70656A-page 12 SIGNAL COUPLER DEVICE Signal Coupler (1) 18 μH 0.1 μF Note 1: Optional 2: Phases can be interchanged Figure 1-4. For application scenarios where Figure WARNING To power line (2) Phase 1 To power line (2) Phase 2 1-4. © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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FIGURE 1-4: DUAL-PHASE POWER SUPPLY EXAMPLES Example Power Transformer Circuit Breaker Panel R 110V 110V Power Line Modem Mx R Wire-in type Signal Coupler C Plug-in type Signal Coupler Example Insert into 220V ...
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... Consumer-band BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board User’s Guide NOTES: DS70656A-page 14 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... Development RF1 Board AN8 AN9 AN16 AN17 RX SHOCK HAZARD – Do not open the HV adapter cable enclosure. © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD USER’S GUIDE Chapter 2. Hardware Transmit Amplifier Adder and Band-Pass ...
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... The output of this filter is then fed to the Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) input of the dsPIC33F DSC device on the Explorer 16 Development Board. The ADC input pins, AN8/AN9/AN16/AN17, can be selected by appropriately setting the jumper, JP3. DS70656A-page 16 PWM-BASED ANALOG SIGNAL GENERATION Figure 2-2. The © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... HiZ select jumper (JP2) 2.2.1 Transmit-level Set Potentiometer (P1) This 100 kΩ potentiometer sets the average signal output amplitude transmitted from the daughter board. Refer to Plus Daughter Board Layout and Schematics” © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc Item No. 6 ADC input select jumper (JP3) ...
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... ADC input and the RF0 pin for the HiZ signal. Please ensure that jumpers JP2 and JP3 are populated according to this configuration. Using other jumper configurations will require suitable modifications in the source code. DS70656A-page 18 for the schematic of the jumper connections. Figure A-5 for the schematic of the jumper © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... Note: Some demonstration applications may use different project files for successive Explorer 16 Development Boards. Please refer to 3.2 “Demonstration Applications” © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD USER’S GUIDE Integrated Development Environment (IDE) should be installed prior to and www.microchip.com/compilers, 1.2 “ ...
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... These files can be found in the config.h . These configuration files are: : Contains options common to all modulation algorithms imple- : Contains all BPSK configuration options : Contains the forward error correction configuration and ), normally framework.h config © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... This setting sets the carrier frequency and must not be changed while using the daughter board. PLM_BAUD This setting sets the modem baud rate. Available options are: 1200, 2400, 3600, 4800, 5400, and 7200 (default). © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ’, causes the code to be compiled with DMA support. Unless 1 DS70656A-page 21 ...
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... DS70656A-page 22 ) and are C-callable. The following functions ...modem\common\plm.h © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... One to four Output Compare channels. Default: - OC1 and OC2 when PWM2 modulator is selected - OC1 through OC4 when PWM4 modulator is selected • Timer2 and its interrupt vector as PWM time base • The GPIO pin selected in the configuration for CS control (default: RF0) © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. DS70656A-page 23 ...
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... MEMORY AND MIPS REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MODEM RAM (Bytes) Flash (Bytes) 700 2709 412 2709 316 2709 268 2709 252 2709 220 2709 ϵ baud, k Integer C ) will require recalculation of Table 3-1 MIPS 33.5 33.6 33.7 33.9 33.9 34.1 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... Explorer 16 Development Boards display the following frame statistics information: • TX: Number of frames transmitted • RX: Number of frames received in total • ERR: Number of frames received with errors © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. MEMORY AND MIPS REQUIREMENT FOR THE MODEM Flash Project Name (Bytes) ...
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... A frame consists of 10 preamble characters (PRE = 0xA5), one Start-of-Frame character (SOF = 0x1B), a length byte payload bytes, and a 16-bit ITUT CRC checksum. In total there byte overhead for each frame. DS70656A-page 26 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... This option is disabled by default. The detailed reports have the following format: • −: Preamble character received • _: Non-preamble character received out of frame © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. DS70656A-page 27 ...
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... When the modem is transmitting its current buffer, it silently ignores everything that it receives via the serial port. The UART configuration for this demonstration is: • 19200 bps • 8-N-1 • No flow control DS70656A-page 28 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... SHOCK HAZARD – Do not open the HV adapter cable enclosure. Failure to heed this warning could result in bodily harm. FIGURE A-1: HV ADAPTER BOARD LAYOUT FIGURE A-2: HV ADAPTER BOARD SCHEMATIC © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD USER’S GUIDE WARNING DS70656A-page 29 ...
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... Consumer-band BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board User’s Guide A.2 CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD LAYOUT AND SCHEMATICS FIGURE A-3: CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD LAYOUT DS70656A-page 30 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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FIGURE A-4: CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD SCHEMATIC SHEET ...
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FIGURE A-5: CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD SCHEMATIC SHEET ...
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... Resistor 2k7 0603 1 R33 Resistor 1k3 0603 2 R8, R9 Resistor 1k 0603 1 R21 Resistor 750R 0603 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD USER’S GUIDE Manufacturer Littelfuse Inc. Microchip Technology Inc. Microchip Technology Inc. TDK NXP ...
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... Manufacturer Part Number Vacuumschmelze T60403-K5024-X044 Littelfuse Inc P6SMB12CA Kemet 463F310000M1M Sumida America CR54NP-150MC Components Inc. Stackpole Electronics Inc. RMCF1206JT470K Qualtek 221001-01 CUI Inc. RCP-012 Hammond Manufacturing 1551RFLBK Belden Wire & Cable 8442 060100 Epcos Inc. S10K275 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... Ensure that the jumpers at CS (JP2) and RX (JP3) are in place (default: JP2 - RF0, JP3 - AN8). Improper jumper settings can disable the transmitter or receiver sections of the daughter board. © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. CONSUMER-BAND BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD USER’ ...
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... Quality of components used in the wiring (like copper wires, connectors, switches, etc). Despite the Automatic Gain Control (AGC) feature incorporated in the modem software, changes in the above mentioned factors may change the maximum possible operational range of the daughter boards. DS70656A-page 36 © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. ...
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... Consequently, this can reduce the operating range and performance. C.1.5 What are the implications of running the dsPIC33F DSC at less than 40 MIPS? Running the dsPIC33F DSC at less than 40 MIPS may change the software timing constants, and potentially render the modem software unusable. © 2011 Microchip Technology Inc. DS70656A-page 37 ...
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