Moving this to the C2000 forum.

hi ,

First of all you cant use the Zero config GUI to configure the TMDSDC3359 board .

Also to use FCC the SOM on the TMDS board should be an FCC SOM ( F28375x) 

If the board is right , refer to the section " Running G3 DC Demo"  in TI G3 DC Software User Guide.doc , part of the SDK to change the frequency band from CENELEC to FCC .

Regards .

Hello,

I'm a hardware engineer chartered to investigate PCL robustness of the on (3) phase grid. 

I purchased the TMDSDC3359 Data Concentrator Evaluation Modules which includes hardware to communicate on the power line, but TeraTerm communication is too advanced for a freshmen programmer to verify Bit Error Rates and lost packets.  I had hoped the startup software  'Zero Configuration GUI Version 2.103 would at least be an initial starting point.  Unfortunately, I can not communication between the (2) modules using a single PC with USB to RS-232 convertors on COM 4 and COM5 ports.

Any suggestion on where to look next for start up software?  I'm about to return the Modules back to TI.

Early thank you

Chris

Hi Chris,

The TMDSDC3359 Data Concentrator Evaluation Module is designed for the head-end systems which communicate with the end meters (“service node”) in the neighborhood area network.

So in a system ideally , there would be 1 Data Concentrator  & several “service nodes”.

The  (“service node”) are developed using the below modules.

The Data Concentrator does not use   'Zero Configuration GUI ' but only use either LAN or the Tera term  ....the modems do use ZCG to communicate and develop.

The SDK for both with the documents & firmware can be found below :

Regards.

Thank you for the follow up.
Is it possible to have (3) or more Service node modules communicating and addressing directly to each other without the master Data Concentrator?
Chris

Hi Chris ,

The Network creation is ideally done by the data concentrator .(DC)

Any further communication can be done without the DC  .

For a 32 node network , even the service nodes modem ( ie . the TMDSPLCKITV4-CEN kits ) could be used  as the master.

So we can have 1 modem used as the master and rest as slaves.

Regards.