HOUSTON, Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Enabling
designers to cost-effectively incorporate intelligence and remote
connectivity into LED lighting designs and get to market faster,
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today announced
its new 32-bit TMS320C2000™ Piccolo™ microcontroller (MCU) AC LED
Lighting and Communications Developer's Kit. Leveraging the
performance of low-cost Piccolo MCUs, the LED Lighting and
Communications Developer's Kit is a complete mains-powered LED
lighting solution with software that allows designers to create
lighting products featuring full dimming, remote connectivity and
efficient power stage design perfect for street, outdoor,
commercial, industrial, and entertainment lighting
applications. A separate plug-in compatible, Piccolo MCU
Power Line Communications (PLC) Add-on Kit further allows
developers to experiment with development of PLC-based lighting
designs.
Piccolo F2802x MCU AC LED Lighting and Communications
Developer's Kit features and benefits:
- Complete solution speeds customer development and provides a
differentiated platform for AC mains-powered, intelligent
luminaries.
- Provides simple, efficient and full-featured LED lighting power
supply design enabling higher energy efficiencies, reduced
manufacturing costs and product adaptability to varying design and
implementation needs.
- Includes hardware and software support for remote connectivity,
walking developers through implementation examples of leading
lighting communications protocols such as DALI, DMX512 and
PLC.
- Enables low-cost integrated intelligence via the benefits of
digital design with Piccolo MCUs, such as independent and
multi-string dimming up to 250W, fault management, light balancing,
dimming profiles, data logging and more.
- With Piccolo MCU-based power supply and lighting control,
customers need only one design to support multiple end product
classes. Leave the power stages unchanged and simply adjust
the number of LED strings to create a full product
family.
- Features C2000's modular controlCARD concept, allowing
developers to experiment with various C2000 MCUs to fit price,
performance and peripheral feature set requirements.
- Includes controlSUITE software, providing easy-to-use open
source demonstration GUIs, software examples and documentation for
full closed loop control of an AC/DC power supply, multi-string LED
control and advanced communications.
Piccolo F2803x MCU PLC Add-on Kit features and
benefits:
- Enables experimentation with PLC in lighting using
PLC-Lite.
- Adds cost effective energy metering, remote diagnostics or
remote control without the need for additional wiring or external
communications modules.
- Features a plug-in PLC daughter board and drop-in replacement
Piccolo F2803x MCU, enabling the hardware support and control
performance necessary for PLC.
- Communicates with the C2000 Power Line Modem Developer's Kit
(sold separately) to easily demo PLC.
- Includes controlSUITE software and PLC software suite for
easy-to-use and open source demonstration GUIs, software examples
and documentation for PLC technology.
Pricing and availability
The new Piccolo AC LED Lighting and Communications Developer's
Kit (TMDSIACLEDCOMKIT) is priced at $699
USD and is immediately available for order. Also
available for order is the Piccolo PLC Add-on Kit (TMDSPLCMODA-P3X)
for $215 USD and can be ordered
now. controlSUITE software is free and can be accessed
immediately. PLC software and documentation is also available
now.
Find out more about TI's lighting solutions by visiting the
links below:
- AC LED Lighting and Communications Kit:
www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-pf
- PLC Add-on Kit: www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-tf
- LED lighting video: www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-v
- LED reference design cookbook:
www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-mc
- Multi-String LED Driver block diagram:
www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-ee
- TI lighting solutions: www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-light-lp
- controlCARD: www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-card-lp
- controlSUITE software: www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-tf3
- TI's microcontroller portfolio:
www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-mcu-lp
- C2000 lighting developer's white paper:
www.ti.com/piccolo-led-pr-mcu-mc2
TI's broad portfolio of microcontrollers (MCUs) and
software
From general purpose, ultra-low power MSP430™ MCUs, to
Stellaris® Cortex™-M MCUs to real-time control C2000™ MCUs, and
Hercules™ safety MCUs, TI offers the broadest range of
microcontroller solutions. Designers can accelerate time to market
by tapping into TI's complete software and hardware tools,
extensive third-party offerings and technical support.
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C2000, Piccolo, controlCARD and controlSUITE are trademarks of
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SOURCE Texas Instruments Incorporated