Technology

DESIGN TOOLS

Systel provides a wealth of tools to enable OEM partners to efficiently implement applications based on the IDC2000 IC family. Highlights of several tools are described below.

PDK Software Design Tool

The PDK is a design tool uploads configuration files from Systel's PDK-FL library of designs into the IDC2000 controller device. Designs set power topology and control functions for lighting ballast designs. This design tool allows the power engineer to fine tune ballast performance to desired characteristics during the development process by adjusting the parameters of the control functions and "matching" the controller to the power components. The designer can modify parameters on-the-fly in a fully protected environment. In real time, the designer can monitor the effect of changing parameters on the power circuit signals and on lamp operation during the warm up, ignition and dimming stages.

Software Test Programs

PLC Modem BER Test Program
This program enables testing of the Bit Error Rate versus Signal to Noise characteristics of the power line communication commands transmitted between wall control and electronic ballast prototypes based on the IDC2000 controllers. This test allows the measurement of the BER vs. S/N characteristics of both Power Line Communication (PLC) modem embedded in the IDC2000 device and the PLC front-end interfaces deployed in the wall control and the ballast working under all possible operating conditions.

Network Communication Test
The PLC Network Test program is a service tool for testing the reliability of the two way power line communication in a control system network comprising up to 255 customer-designed final product devices (addressable devices) per individual circuit based on the IDC2000 controllers. This ping program sends repeated commands from a control unit, such as a wall control, in a lighting circuit to an addressable device, like a ballast, connected at the longest distance in the circuit and records the acknowledgement signal retransmitted from this addressable device to the remote control in order to verify the correctness of the command received by the remote addressable device

Download The PDK L-3.1 a design tool for fluorescent lighting ballast and wall control for lighting building control.

Software Design Tools
	The PDK-L-3.1, a software design tool for configuring the IDC2000 IC family. Date: Sept. 20, 2007
	PDK-L-3.1 S/W User Manual Rev. 02 Date: July 12, 2007
	Quick Start Guide for The PDK L-3.1 Date: April 4, 2007