Until recently, home networks depended on special cables (typically requiring professional installation) to link PCs, audio/video (A/V) equipment, and peripheral devices together, which could be expensive and problematic if the hardware components were in different rooms of the house. Now thanks to recent technological developments, consumers can use their already installed telephone and electrical wiring systems to link multiple computers and digital appliances around the house. This white paper examines a number of key phoneline and powerline technologies that promise to deliver the "holy grail" of home networks without the need to run hundred’s of meters of new data cables inside the walls of households.

Access the entire document on the Xilinx, Inc. website.