Home networking

AverLogic Technologies has launched Home Audio/Video (AV) Networking, Home A/V Network plus Ethernet Extension and Audio Sender reference designs, the digital home audio/video streaming solutions using existing power line infrastructure.

Audio/video streaming through a home network using existing power wiring infrastructure allows video in different locations in the house. A/V Networking reference designs, using power line communications, can distribute the A/V contents of DVD/VCD/VCR players, digital set-top boxes, to LCD/PDP TVs from one room to another.

Each reference design includes a transmitter module and a receiver module. Both have ethernet interface, which can be connected to PLC bridges.

The second reference design comes with embedded PLC adapters in the modules. Both these solutions are enabled by a chipset consisting of AV network controllers, AL9M802, an MPEG-4/2 encoder, AL9V576 and a video decoder, AL242.

The Home AV Networking reference design can distribute the A/V signals plus ethernet data networking via PLC. IR blaster function enables users to control the video source devices connected to TX unit. It co-works with major brands of PLC controllers and has four reference designs of PLC sub-modules, each for a different PLC standard.