ATPL230A ATPL Series Power Line Communications Device DATASHEET Description ATPL230A is a power line communications base band modem, compliant with the PHY layer of PRIME (Power Line Intelligent Metering Evolution) specification. PRIME is an open standard technology used for Smart Grid applications like Smart Metering, Industrial Lighting and Automation, Home Automation, Street Lighting, Solar Energy and PHEV Charging Stations. ATPL230A PRIME device includes enhanced features such as additional robust modes and frequency band extension. ATPL230A is able to operate in indepen- dently selectable transmission bands up to 472 kHz, achieving baud rates ranging from 5.4 kbps up to 128.6 kbps. ATPL230A has been conceived to be bundled with an external Atmel MCU or MPU. Atmel provides a PRIME PHY layer library which is used by the external MCU/MPU to take control of ATPL230A PHY layer device. Atmel-43053H-ATPL230A-Datasheet 01-Apr-151. Features Modem Power Line Carrier Modem for 50 Hz and 60 Hz mains 97-carriers OFDM PRIME compliant DBPSK, DQPSK, D8PSK modulation schemes available Additional enhanced modes available: DBPSK Robust and DQPSK Robust Eight selectable channels between 42kHz and 472kHz available. Only one channel can be active at a time FCC ARIB CENELEC A - BCD CHANNEL 1 CHANNEL 2 CHANNEL 3 CHANNEL 4 CHANNEL 5 CHANNEL 6 CHANNEL 7 CHANNEL 8 f (kHz) Baud rate Selectable: 5.4 to 128.6 kbps Four dedicated buffers for transmission/reception Up to 124.6 dB Vrms injected signal against PRIME load Up to 79.6 dB of dynamic range in PRIME networks Automatic Gain Control and continuous amplitude tracking in signal reception Class D switching power amplifier control Integrated 1.2V LDO regulator to supply analog functions Medium Access Control co-processor features Viterbi soft decoding and PRIME CRC calculation 128-bit AES encryption Channel sensing and collision pre-detection 2 ATPL230A DATASHEET Atmel-43053H-ATPL230A-Datasheet 01-Apr-15 41,992 88,867 96,680 143.555 151.367 198,242 206,055 252,930 260,742 307,617 315,430 362,305 370,117 416,992 424,805 471,680