Renesas has licensed Yitran’s high speed 150kbit/s power line communications technology for its family of narrowband communications devices.

“Addressing smart metering, smart home and street lighting applications, the high data rate solution builds on the already established and robust narrowband differential code shift keying [DCSK] solution which is installed in many metering applications around the world, offering backward compatibility to already installed lower data rate solutions,” said Renesas.

150kbit/s is possible in FCC bands, and the technology is compliant to different frequency band regulations such as Cenelec, FCC and ARIB.

“It will be uniquely available from at least two interoperable semiconductor vendors from the beginning,” said Renesas - who’s implementation is based on its M16C microcontroller core with 256Kbyte flash and 24Kbyte Ram.

Renesas’ current narrowband product uses Yitran’s DCSK technology.

More information: www.renesas.com