1.
Overview
The objective of this user guide is to explain the transmission stage of the physical layer in G3 and
PRIME protocols and then show how to obtain more accurate calibration values in order to:
•
Meet power injection requirements
•
Meet signal quality requirements
•
Compensate nonlinearities of the power supply, related to components tolerances and PCB layout
•
Compensate nonlinearities of the coupling design, related to components tolerances and PCB
layout
To help in this calibration process of the PL360 PHY layer, Microchip provides the PHY Calibration Tool,
an open source application developed with Python
®
.
The Microchip G3 and PRIME stack implementations include default PHY layer configuration values
optimized for the Evaluation Kits. With the help of the PHY Calibration Tool it is possible to obtain the
configuration values for the customer´s hardware implementation.
PL360
Overview
©
2018 Microchip Technology Inc.
User Guide
DS50002818A-page 3
