NEC Electronics Europe Releases 78K0 Lighting Communications Demonstration Kit

The board populates connectors for the supported interfaces and can be easily connected to the recently released 78K0/IX2 LED demonstration kit or any other lighting slave controller in a network supporting DALI or DMX152 standards.
Two very comprehensive software tools, the DALI Master GUI controller and the DMX512 Master GUI controller, are included in the 78K0 Lighting Communications kit,. By connecting the board to a PC using the provided USB cable, the light output of a slave device such as 78K0/IX2 LED kit can be remotely controlled by using the easy-to-use GUI tools, depending whether the boards are connected via DALI or DMX512 interfaces between them.
The DALI Master Controller GUI allows users to implement real time control of the light output and to benefit from a number of effective features such as power control settings for dimming and turning the lights on and off, or setting maximum and minimum dimming levels while the system is running. All dimming levels can be specified without difficulty in the graphical tool. Users can also design scenes and even specify the fade settings such as fade rate and time once the addresses of the slave devices are set.
The DMX512 Master Controller GUI provides users with the content of the DMX512 protocol, helps to understand its concept and allows graphically designing mixed color scenes and flashing sequences. Once the slave addresses are specified, designers can simply step through each scene they created manually or run in real time at the rate they specified. This tool brings an efficient way of lighting system design and debugging on application level. Scene data can also be saved or loaded into CSV format for later use.
Documentation and the user’s manuals for both tools are included in the 78K0 Lighting Communications kit. The 78K0 Lighting Communications kit, 78K0-LIGHTCOMMS, is available now.