Design of a SoC chip for appliance control based on home network

On the basis of introducing the characteristics and the overall structure of Home Network technology, a household appliances control SoC (system on-a-chip) chip, HN600, is proposed according to the EIA600 protocol, which adopts 0.25μm process. The structure design of HN600 chip is presented first. Then from the interface module, program flow, receiving module and sending module, the IP data link layer of HN600 chip is discussed in detail. Limited state machines are employed to make the design work more clearly and easily. Before making wafer flow films, a FPGA simulation test is made to verify our design. Finally, a sample demo platform has been made to demonstrate the performance of our proposed chip and the experiment results show that the chip matches the standard of EIA600. © 2007 IEEE.