April 1995
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LM1893/LM2893 Carrier-Current Transceiver
General Description
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Output power easily boosted 10-fold
50 to 300 kHz carrier frequency choice
TTL and MOS compatible digital levels
Regulated voltage to power logic
Carrier-current systems use the power mains to transfer in-
formation between remote locations. This bipolar carrier-
current chip performs as a power line interface for half-du-
plex (bi-directional) communication of serial bit streams of
virtually any coding. In transmission, a sinusoidal carrier is
FSK modulated and impressed on most any power line via a
rugged on-chip driver. In reception, a PLL-based demodula-
tor and impulse noise filter combine to give maximum range.
A complete system may consist of the LM1893, a COPSTM
controller, and discrete components.
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Drives all conventional power lines
Applications
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Energy management systems
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Home convenience control
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Inter-office communication
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Appliance control
Features
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Fire alarm systems
Noise resistant FSK modulation
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Security systems
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User-selected impulse noise filtering
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Telemetry
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Up to 4.8 kBaud data transmission rate
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Computer terminal interface
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Strings of 0’s or 1’s in data allowed
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Sinusoidal line drive for low RFI
Typical Application
TL/H/6750–1
FIGURE 1. Block diagram of carrierÐcurrent chip with a complement of discrete components making a complete
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360 Baud transceiver. Use caution with this circuitÐdangerous line voltage is present.
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125 kHz, f
DATA
BI-LINETM and COPSTM are trademarks of National Semiconductor Corp.
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Carrier-Current Transceivers are also called Power Line Carrier (PLC) transceivers.
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1995 National Semiconductor Corporation
TL/H/6750
RRD-B30M115/Printed in U. S. A.