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TI Korea (CEO Kent Jeon, www.ti.com/ww/kr ) February 6, 2012 – TI, a leader in energy management, communications, and control for smart grids, has added technologies and tools to its existing portfolio of utility metering, home/building automation, and smart grid infrastructure. This enables developers to create safe, economical, and agile solutions for smart grids that can respond to future changes.

Energy metering IC with world-leading accuracy, flexibility, and robustness
As a prime example of its efforts to improve utility metering efficiency, TI recently launched 24 new energy meter ICs. These provide the industry's best accuracy, flexibility, and robustness for 1-phase, 2-phase, and 3-phase e-meter solutions, while reducing system costs. The new MSP430F673x/F672x energy meter IC family combines lowest power consumption, state-of-the-art metrology, and clocking capabilities for use in rugged, high-precision power measurement designs. These new energy meter ICs offer developers greater flexibility when designing e-metering and energy monitoring systems. (For more information, see www.ti.com/dtech-pr-msp430 )

Demonstration of the highest-density ZigBee smart energy system-on-chip
TI’s CC2538 System-on-Chip (SoC), a product that has spearheaded the development of the ZigBee Smart Energy™ standard, is designed to enable developers to build existing and next-generation smart energy devices without incurring additional costs for microcontrollers or external memory. This cost-effective radio frequency (RF) solution for smart grid communication facilitates the development of control applications for smart electricity, gas, and water meters, as well as in-home displays. Alongside this, TI’s high-performance CC1200 RF transceiver is an enhanced version of the CC1120 sub-1GHz RF performance line. It supports the full bandwidth of the 802.15.4g standard for use in sub-1GHz wireless smart utility networks. (For more information, please refer to www.ti.com/dtech-pr-cc2538 )

Smart grid infrastructure platform that saves time and costs
For customers requiring solutions that support Smart Grid Infrastructure (SGI), TI provides a new PLC data concentrator reference demo based on the SGI evaluation platform. By utilizing this reference demo, developers will be able to shorten time-to-market. This new data concentrator from TI allows developers to add PLC communication supporting different protocol standards within a single design, without the need to modify existing hardware. This SGI board can support various PLC standards, such as PRIME, G3, and FlexOFDM libraries, using the same hardware. (For more information, please refer to www.ti.com/dtech-pr-sgi )

Smart grid solutions supporting the new G3-PLC standard
TI, which has been dedicated to providing reliable power line communication (PLC) solutions, announced that as a board member of the G3 Alliance, it supports a new PLC protocol called G3-PLC. TI's G3 software package is designed to support PLC products such as PLC development kits and PLC data concentrators, enabling the development of applications that meet various international standards. Featuring a unique modular hardware architecture and a flexible software framework, TI's PLC solutions provide PLC-based technology that is unique in the industry for supporting multiple protocol standards and modular approaches on a single platform.