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The power of TI saves you time to market.
- Globally deployed metering know-how and products
- Comprehensive end-to-end system-on-chip SoC) solutions
- Innovation and expertise across a robust
portfolio, covering all the major functions of
the meter
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Outsmart the competition with smarter solutions.
- Optimized electricity-meter SoC (LM4F1xx)
- Flexible applications-processor SoC (LM4F1x)
- High performance for graphical user interfaces
(AM18xx/AM335x Sitara™ ARM® MPU)
- Optimized, low-power radio SoC (CC1101/CC1120 ISM)
- Flexible power line communication processors
(TMS320F28PLCxx)
- Secure RFID prepayment
- Complementary interface and power management
- Cost-effective integration and volume manufacturing
- Compliance with wM-Bus and 802.15.4g
- Compliance with future worldwide security requirements
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Speed your design cycle with TI's flexible solutions.
- Complete portfolio of hardware, software and SoCs tailored to functional requirements
- Future-proof solutions
- Upgradable, in-system programmable flash memory to
support evolving worldwide standards
- Available standards include IEC, ANSI, ZigBee®,
Wireless M-Bus (wM-Bus), PLC and 6LoWPAN
- TI grid solutions are scalable to allow optimization of system requirements
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TI offers smart grid solutions now and for the future.
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Hardware: Dedicated silicon
- Metrology: MSP430™
- Ultra-low-power consumption, high-performance analog front end (sigma-deltas, comparators, ADCs), RTC and LCD driver – 1-phase: MSP430FE42xx, MSP430AFE2xx front end, MSP430F673x; 3-phase: MSP430F471xx
- Application Processor
- Stellaris® ARM® Cortex® M4F microcontrollers have security, connectivity and up to 1MB flash
memory – LM4F1x0QC/LM4F1x0QR series
Sitara™ ARM MPU – Provides increased performance
for advanced user interface: ARM926 and
Cortex A8 core, connectivity (UARTs, SPIs, I2C,
GPIOs, USB, Ethernet), AM18x MPU series
C6000™ DSP floating-point performance –
TMS320C674x seriesx
C6000 DSP+ARM performance + OS
support – OMAP™-L13x series
- Power Line Communication (PLC): C2000™
- CPU performance (MHz), high-resolution PWMs,
fast ADC – Piccolo™, Concerto™
- Power Line Analog Front End (AFE): PA
- Current drive, integration, zero-crossing detection,
Rx-Tx filtering – PGA112, OPA564, AFE030,
AFE031
- Low-Power RF Offering
- Link budget, selectivity, low power consumption – CC1101, CC1120, CC2530, CC2533, CC2538 (preview)
- RFID
- Multi-protocol, LDO integration, low-power modes – TRF7960, TMS3705, TMS37157
- Power Management
- High efficiency, low power consumption, integration and flexibility – UCC28600, TPS5401, TPS54260, TPS54231, TLV704
Software: Optimized offering
- Metrology: MSP430™
- Reference designs provide software building blocks for a quick start – 1-phase: MSP430FE42xx, MSP430AFE2xx front end, MSP430F673x; 3-phase: MSP430F471xx, Rogowski coil and THD software
- Application Processor
- StellarisWare® peripheral driver library, ZigBee® Stack, RFID MIFARE, Sitara ARM MPU – Significant code base and high-quality development software available from TI and ARM third-party ecosystem:
- Base port to multiple industry-leading
operating systems (Linux® kernel 2.6.33 BSP,
Windows® Embedded CE BSP), full peripheral
driver library.
- Monitoring and power-analytics libraries
- Rogowski support with 3-phase monitoring and analytics, including harmonic distortion
- Communications, OS and power-monitoring and analytics libraries
- Sitara ARM MPU high-quality development
software from TI and ARM third-party ecosystem. Supports Linux and Windows Embedded CE.
- Power Line Communication (PLC): C2000 MCU
- High-performance and low-power VCU (Viterbi,
Complex-Math and CRC Unit) instructions for
PLC PHY acceleration. AFE test library supports
CENELEC
band A, B, C and D. The plcSUITE™ software
package contains multiple OFDM standards software
components: Fully certified PRIME stack and G3
complete stack, IEEE P1901.2, ITU-G.9955/9956, TIdefined
FlexOFDM™ and PLC-Lite, IEC61334 S-FSK
for both eMeter/service node and data concentrator
side. Zero-configuration GUI allows user to monitor
and control PLC system with ease.
- Power Line Analog Front End (AFE): PA
- Integration with the C2000 PLC solutions –
Universal Hardware Abstraction Layer supports
AFE031/AFE030 or OPA564/PGA112 under single
software framework. AFE test libraries and test
vectors for performance calibration.
- Wireless Connectivity Offering
- Metering protocol stacks and dedicated profiles
(ZigBee-SE, wM-Bus, ZigBeeIP, 6LoWPAN) –
Royalty-free, fully certified and interoperable
protocol stacks.
- RFID/NFC
- Prepayment code examples available (14443A/B,
MIFARE) – Examples available for multiple
platforms (MSP430, Stellaris)
Global support: The power of TI
- People
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- Dedicated support team for customers with metering customers
- Hardware and software, analog and digital
- Complete coverage for metrology, PLC and RF
- External representation
- TI presence at the regulatory bodies (governmental and private) – PRIME Alliance (PLCEMEA), G3-PLC, Euridis, ETSI, IEEE 802.15.4g, ZigBee, P1901.2
- Development tools
- Robust and fully tested solutions, one-to-many approach – Smart-meter board development, ZigBee large-node network test
- Logistics
- Expertise with big production ramps – TI production, assembly and test sites can be audited
- Quality
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- Metering requires high volume and high quality
- Expertise in manufacturing (dies, packaging) and CQA process
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