Continue to Site

Welcome to EDAboard.com

Welcome to our site! EDAboard.com is an international Electronics Discussion Forum focused on EDA software, circuits, schematics, books, theory, papers, asic, pld, 8051, DSP, Network, RF, Analog Design, PCB, Service Manuals... and a whole lot more! To participate you need to register. Registration is free. Click here to register now.

Register Log in

Help Choosing Ethernet Controller

Status
Not open for further replies.
mehtadhaval

mehtadhaval

Member level 3
Joined
Sep 15, 2010
Messages
56
Helped
7
Reputation
14
Reaction score
7
Trophy points
1,288
Activity points
1,616
Hello,

I want to make a project in which I need to interface microcontroller with PC through Ethernet Port. For that, I am planning to use Microchip Controllers. My question is that among PIC18F97J60 and PIC32MX6XX, which controller will be easy to use for first timer like me ? also, microchip has stand alone ethernet controller ENC28J60. So, which approach will be easy i.e., Ethernet PIC controller or ENC28J60 with another controller ?
 

Essentially all the Microchip enabled devices and the ENC28J60 use the same drivers and TCP/IP stack. I've used most Microchip's Ethernet enabled devices in commercial projects and while they performed well, setting up the TCP/IP Stack can be a challenge for the unfamiliar.

The easiest solution would be to use a device with an embedded TCP/IP stack, like a WIZnet device:

WIZnet W5100 Network Module with Mag Jack - WIZ811MJ

These types of devices only require establishing a serial connection between your MCU and the device, the Ethernet connection is initialized using simple commands via the serial connection.

There are other manufactures of these embedded TCP/IP Ethernet modules, besides WIZnet.

BigDog
 

Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Part and Inventory Search

Welcome to EDABoard.com

Sponsor

Back
Top