Baseband transceiver design of a 128-kbps power-line modem for household applications

Author

Chen, Yi-Fu ; Chiueh, Tzi-Dar

Author_Institution

Siemens Telecommun. Syst. Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

17

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

4/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

338

Lastpage

344

Abstract

Communication using power line as a medium provides a convenient and inexpensive way for data transmission and control signaling in the households. In this paper, we introduce a power-line channel model as well as architecture of a spread-spectrum baseband transceiver integrated circuit (IC) for a power-line modem. The modulation and spreading scheme used in the proposed transceiver is M-ary bi-orthogonal keying (MBOK). This transceiver runs at a chipping rate of 256 kHz and provides 128-kbps data rate. Simulation results as well as FPGA emulation verify the effectiveness of the proposed architecture for household data communication

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; home automation; integrated circuits; modems; spread spectrum communication; transceivers; 128 kbit/s; 256 kHz; M-ary bi-orthogonal keying; baseband transceiver design; control signaling; data transmission; emulation; home automation; household applications; household data communication; modulation scheme; power line communication; power-line channel model; spread-spectrum baseband transceiver integrated circuit; Architecture; Baseband; Circuit simulation; Communication system control; Data communication; Field programmable gate arrays; Integrated circuit modeling; Modems; Spread spectrum communication; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/61.997894

Filename

997894