05.11.2008

Yitran Announces IT700 Powerline Communication Controller Designed for Energy Management and the Smart Home

Yitran Communications, available through GLYN High-Tech Distribution, announces a new line of Powerline Communications (PLC) networking controllers called IT700. This mixed signal IC is fully compliant with the HomePlug Command & Control PLC networking standard and is the first such product to be introduced in the market. IT700 is ideally suited for AMR/AMM/AMI, Home and Building Automation applications and is priced optimally for mass market adoption.

The IT700 is a highly integrated IC combining an extended 8051 CPU core, HPCC-ready PLC transceiver, 256K Flash and 16K RAM, offering data rates up to 7.5 Kbps. Manufactured on a 0.18u flash technology, the IC comes in a QFN56 package. Compared to the current IT800 series ICs, the IT700 integrates many of the components including the line driver inside the chip and takes in a single 3.3v input. The overall number of external components necessary to create a node is much less than the current products. The chip is fully backward compatible to work with legacy applications. Yitran will also provide a fully HomePlug C&C compliant data link layer (DLL) in software necessary for applications to communicate with the IT700. The DLL also implements a 128-bit AES encryption offering data security at the packet level.

IT700 Features

· Low-cost powerline communication (PLC) modem and application solution in a single chip
· Incorporates Yitran’s high performance Data Link Layer (DLL), Network Protocol (Y-Net) and extremely robust Physical Layer (PHY)
· Extended 8051 microcontroller with 256KB Flash for protocol stack and application
· Protocol Controller Architecture version: pre-programmed with communication stack
· Open Solution Architecture version: allows user to program application code together with the communication stack.
· Full home coverage even under adverse line conditions
· HomePlug Command and Control ready
· Fully backward compatible with IT800 Series

IT700 Applications

Smart Grid Applications
  ◦ Automated Meter Reading (AMR)
  ◦ Advanced Meter Management (AMM)

Energy Management
  ◦ Smart Home & Building Automation
  ◦ Home Appliance Control & Diagnostics
  ◦ Security and Access Control
  ◦ Environmental Control

Commercial Applications
  ◦ Street Light Control
  ◦ Vending Machine Control
  ◦ Signage Control

Yitran also recently released a companion network layer software suite called “Y-NET”. It is suitable for the development of a wide variety of command & control applications. Y-Net combines the advantages of Yitran’s extremely robust and reliable IT800 PLC modem technology with enhanced Networking capabilities such as Plug & Play, Logical Network Creation, Master-Slave and Peer-to-Peer Network Configurations, Multiple Network Topologies (Fully Connected, Mesh, Tree), Multiple Network Support, Selective and Secure Participation of Nodes, Dynamic Routing/Repeating, Failure Detection, Network Parameter Recovery, etc. It allows application developers and system integrators not only seamless evaluation of the PLC modem performance, but also dramatically reducing the system development cycle.
Commercial samples of the IT700 and the starter kit will be available in 4Q08 with MP scheduled for 1Q09.

For pricing or more information, please send us an email at sales@glyn.com.au.