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tjalps

Joined: 28 May 2001
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23 Jan 2005 20:17 zigbee howto

Hello!

I'm starting with ZigBee design, because I think that it realy has great potetntial because of price and usability.

Did anyone tried Microchip demo and how it works? How is with stack?

Can you sugest with what is best to start?

Can we realy achive 25m distances and more?

Please, write anything what you think is good for new people on this subject!

regards!

svicent

Joined: 11 Jul 2001
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23 Jan 2005 20:55 zigbee design

Issue 175 (February 2005) of Circuit Cellar magazine contains Part 1 of a tutorial on ZigBee. The tutorial contains two parts.

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DonJ

Joined: 27 Dec 2004
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23 Jan 2005 23:20 zigbee how to

tjalps wrote:

Hi

1) Try to search for Zigbee at this forum and you will find some info about Zigbee
2) Go to www.zigbee.org for introductory info
3) There are some good IEEE papers about the subject

Range: 25m should not be a problem. Freescale has achieved link over 300m!
Zigbee kits: Ember, Microchip, Chipcon and Freescale offer Zigbee kits. The Ember stack is pretty neat. I don't know about the others. Try out yourself.

Good luck Smile

tjalps

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24 Jan 2005 11:14 microchip zigbee tutorial

Hello!

What do you mean that Ember stack is neat?

Regards!

DonJ

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24 Jan 2005 12:34 how to start with zigbee

tjalps wrote:

Hello!

What do you mean that Ember stack is neat?

Regards!

"It seems to function well".

tjalps

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24 Jan 2005 13:15 how to zigbee

Hello!

Did you buy complete development system from ember or you started working only with Ember IC's?

Regards!

DonJ

Joined: 27 Dec 2004
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24 Jan 2005 18:17 details of zigbee

tjalps wrote:

Hello!

Did you buy complete development system from ember or you started working only with Ember IC's?

Regards!

Hi

Our team recently started on this mixture of external kit and our own technology.

A.T.B

milojames

Joined: 08 Mar 2002
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24 Jan 2005 21:07 zigbee tutorial

Take a look at http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=13192DSK&parentCode=ZRP-1&nodeId=02XPgQhCQ6m6cy7103
. I've been playing around with the freescale development kit and it works pretty well. You can get 25m, but you have to build your own antennas. The ones on the eval board are not very good.

DonJ

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24 Jan 2005 23:46 how to start with zigbee

milojames wrote:

Take a look at h**p://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=13192DSK&parentCode=ZRP-1&nodeId=02XPgQhCQ6m6cy7103
. I've been playing around with the freescale development kit and it works pretty well. You can get 25m, but you have to build your own antennas. The ones on the eval board are not very good.

Is it correct that you need two antennas? It looks like it from the brochure.
Thanks.

tjalps

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25 Jan 2005 8:02 zigbee microchip example

Which is better EMBER or FREESCALE?

Regards!

DonJ

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25 Jan 2005 9:09 full details of zigbee

tjalps wrote:

Which is better EMBER or FREESCALE?

Regards!

Hard to say. You need to work with both to tell. I haven't.

A.T.B

milojames

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28 Jan 2005 0:17 microchip zigbee example

Yes, the freescale parts have a seperate tx and rx antenna. I used a tx/rx switch to only use one antenna, but I suppose you could also design a passive combining circut since the device never transmits or recieves at the same time.

the chipcon CC2420 is a much nicer part and has the tx/rx switch built in, as well as hardware based encryption, but is more expensive, so I must use the freescale part.

DonJ

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28 Jan 2005 9:19 zigbee where to start from

milojames wrote:

The upcoming parts also from newcommers seem to be better. Hard to say which will be best.

Smile

mitesh

Joined: 13 May 2002
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29 Jan 2005 10:31 zigbee where to start

Hi Do any body have full details on ZigBee. Do any body have extra Freescale development board.

Please support me, i want one.

DonJ

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29 Jan 2005 14:00 starting zigbee

mitesh wrote:

Hi Do any body have full details on ZigBee. Do any body have extra Freescale development board.

Please support me, i want one.

I think it is not for free.

Smile

tjalps

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29 Jan 2005 16:30 zigbee design kit

Hello!

Yest that is true. From begining Freescale had limited number of development kits and now he stoped the action and if I'm right you can order development kit for around 99 USD which is much cheaper than Ember and ChipCon.

regards!

ivoblog

Joined: 13 Feb 2005
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13 Feb 2005 11:36 configure zigbee tutorial

Microchip has an nice kit with two microcontroller boards and two ieee802.15.4 capable RF modules for 199 USD. The kit is limited in that it uses pre-spec zigbee software with no mesh routing functionality. The source code is included however (but no C compiler).

More here : http://blogger.xs4all.nl/ivonoorh/articles/25600.aspx and pictures : http://blogger.xs4all.nl/ivonoorh/gallery/6381.aspx

The RF modules use ChipCon CC2420 chips. Ember re-labels these chips as EM2420.

Chipcon sells the CC2420EM, Pictures here : http://blogger.xs4all.nl/ivonoorh/gallery/4045.aspx. This is an CC2420 RF Module.

omara007

Joined: 06 Jan 2003
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03 May 2005 4:42 how zigbee start

I heard that Freescale is distributing its ZIgBee MAC code for free but under certain conditionds or something like that .. is that true ? .. if yes, how can I get to have this code given that I will use it in my masters ?