TI offers smarter grid solutions, for now and for the future.
The power of TI shortens your time to market.
- Globally deployed metering expertise 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
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 to support evolving worldwide standards
- Available standards include IEC, ANSI, ZigBee®, wireless M-Bus, PLC
- Scalable families of solutions to allow optimization of system requirements
Outsmart the competition with TI solutions.
- Optimized electricity meter SoC (MSP430FE4xx)
- Flexible applications processor SoC (LM3S1x21)
- High performance for graphical user interfaces
(AM18x Sitara ARM MPU)
- Optimized low-power radio SoC (CC2530 + CC2591
range extender, ZigBee, CC1101 ISM)
- Flexible power-line communication processors
(TMS320F28xx)
- Secure RFID prepayment
- GSM/GPRS communications modules
- Complementary interface and power management
- Cost-effective integration and volume manufacturing
- Wireless M-Bus
Across the smart grid application spectrum, TI supports every stage of the design process,
from device selection and software development to tools and system solutions.
Hardware: Dedicated silicon
- Metrology: MSP430
- Ultra-low power consumption, high-performance analog front end (sigma-deltas, comparators, ADCs), RTCs and LCD drivers –
MSP430FE42xx, MSP430AFE2xx front end (both 1-phase); MSP430F471xx (3-phase)
- Application Processor
- Stellaris® ARM® Cortex®-M3 microcontrollers
Security, connectivity, flash memory up to 2 MB –
LM3S1x21/LM3S1x26 series
- Sitara™ ARM MPU
Provides increased performance
for advanced user interfaces –
ARM926
core, connectivity (UARTs, SPIs, I2C, GPIOs, USB,
Ethernet), AM18x MPU series
- C6000 High Performance DSP (DSP fixed/floatingpoint
and performance)
TMS320C674x series
- C6-Integra™ (ARM9™/A8 + C674xDSP: Performance + OS support)
OMAP™-L138 and C6A814x series
- Power Line Communication (PLC): C2000™ MCU
- CPU performance (MHz), high-resolution PWMs, fast ADC –
Piccolo™ and Delfino™ series
- Power Line Analog Front End
- Current drive, integration, zero-crossing detection, Rx/Tx filtering –
PGA112, OPA564, AFE031
- Low-Power RF
- Link budget, selectivity, low-power consumption –
CC1101, CC2530, CC2520, CC2533
- RFID
- Multi-Protocol, LDO integration, low power modes –
TRF7960, TMS3705, TMS37157
- Power Management
- High-efficiency, low-power consumption, integration & flexibility –
UCC28600, UCC28610, TPS5401, TPS54260, TPS54231, TLV704
Software: Optimized offering
- Metrology: MSP430 MCU
- Reference designs provide software building blocks for a quick start –
MSP430FE42xx, MSP430AFE2xx front end (both 1-phase); MSP430F471xx (3-phase)
- Application Processor
- StellarisWare® peripheral-driver library, ZigBee® stack, RFID MIFARE, Sitara ARM MPU – Significant code base available, plus high-quality development software 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 three-phase monitoring and analytics, including harmonic distortion
- Communications, OS and power-monitoring and analytics libraries
- Power Line Communication: C2000 MCU
- plcSUITE™ contains libraries for multiple OFDM standards: PRIME and G3 complete stack and TI-defined FlexOFDM™. S-FSK customized for smaller footprint via third party through TI channels. PLC quality monitor (PQM) to allow user to monitor and configure PLC systems.
- Power Line Analog Front End
- Integration with the C2000 PLC solutions –
Universal hardware abstraction layer supports AFE031 or OPA564/PGA112 under single SW framework. AFE test libraries and test vectors for
performance calibration.
- Low-Power RF
- Metering protocol stacks and dedicated profiles –
ZigBee-SE, WMBUS, ZigBee-IP from 2010. Royalty-free and fully certified with other suppliers at interoperability events
- RFID
- Prepayment code examples (14443A/B, MIFARE) available for multiple platforms (MSP430, Stellaris)
Support: The power of TI
- People
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- Dedicated support team for customers with metering applications
- Hardware and software, analog and digital
- Complete coverage for metrology, PLC and RF
- External representation
- TI presence at governmental and private regulatory bodies – PRIME Alliance (PLC-EMEA), G3-PLC,
Euridis, ETSI, IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee, P1901.2
- Development tools
- TI delivers robust and fully tested solutions with 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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