STMicroelectronics ST8500
Programmable power line communication modem SoC
FEATURES
● Programmable power line communication (PLC) modem System on Chip● Integrated differential PLC analog front-end – PGA with automatic gain control and ADC – DAC with transmission pre-driver – Digital transmission level control – Zero crossing comparator – Up to 500 kHz PLC signal bandwidth
● High performance, fully programmable realtime engine dedicated to PLC PHY and real time MAC protocol management (400 MHz max. frequency) – Dedicated code and data SRAM memories
● Standard ARM® 32-bit Cortex®-M4F fully programmable core for protocol upper layers and peripherals management – 200 MHz maximum frequency – 256 kB of embedded SRAM for code and data – 96 kB of embedded SRAM for data – 8 kB of embedded shared RAM – Bootloader ROM memory – One Time Programmable (OTP) memory with dedicated areas available for secure keys and user information storage – Serial w