Opinions on Freescale ig Bee evaluation board performance

[mike2002]

ZigBee

Did anyone try Freescale "Zig Bee" Evaluation board.
This is very interesting wireless bus for microcontrollers.

Please post !!!

 

[Regnum]

Re: Zig Bee

how much is it ?
I was about to buy Zigbee stuff fron Chipcon, but the DK is damn expensive

 

[gooodman]

Re: Zig Bee

This is Berkeley TinyOS. FYI
OS in Zigbee
http://www.tinyos.net/

 

[mike2002]

Re: Zig Bee

I do not know what is cost. I got it free. It contain two trancivers 2.4Ghz what can bee connected to computer RS232. I have not tried yet.

 

[ravi_p]

Re: Zig Bee

Hi mike

Even I aminterested to get "Zig Bee" Evaluation board can you please let me how to go about to get the Evaluation board

Thanks

 

[Ace-X]

Zig Bee

Check this:

Ace-X.

 

[dacadc]

Re: Zig Bee

Freescale provides ZigBee demo board free, see Circuit Cellar design context.

 

[Ace-X]

Re: Zig Bee

Freescale provides ZigBee demo board free, see Circuit Cellar design context.

Unfortunately, it is available only for US and Canada.

 

[SolarTorch]

Re: Zig Bee

ZigBee is a hot topic recently. Where can I find more techincal info or book about it?

 

[dacadc]

Re: Zig Bee

I have only several articles, commertial customers are joining the Zigbee alliance. I have looked at Amazon and did not find very useful.

 

[ME]

Re: Zig Bee

ZigBee is a hot topic recently. Where can I find more techincal info or book about it?

**broken link removed**

Resources

Advertorials
Analyst Reports
Books
Slide Presentations
White Papers
Useful Industry Links

 

[dacadc]

Re: ZigBee

I was suprised by high price of joining to group. Looks that only large companies are able to join. Not good.

 

[ME]

Re: ZigBee

Try to look at the picture at their frontpage:


It doesn't seem very professional to have a mirrored picture at the frontpage. I wonder what they spend all the money on, I don't hope they spend too much on threir webdesingners.

 

[dacadc]

Re: ZigBee

I think, their consultants eat these money for endless inter group agreements.

About getting Freescale test board: I can advice push freescale and they send board free without any problems

 

[SolarTorch]

Re: ZigBee

I know the Zipbee specification has not been finalized. So why Freescale has the Zipbee solution? Is it just partial / preliminary version of Zipbee?

Is there anyone has the preliminary specification?

 

[ME]

ZigBee

Chipcon have also released ZigBee chips some time ago.
First CC2420 and now also CC2430.
**broken link removed**

ZigBee is based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard.


Btw. it's ZigBee, not Zipbee.

 

[dacadc]

Re: ZigBee

Atmel looks also big player in this market. I heard they released dedicated AVR chips for this.

 

[ME]

Re: ZigBee

Atmel looks also big player in this market. I heard they released dedicated AVR chips for this.

They are not released yet, but they were announced some time ago and are still in development:
http://www.atmel.com/products/zigbee/
They are going to release a two chips solution:

Atmel is committed to providing cost effective, easy-to-use, highly reliable, and secure system solutions for the wireless market. Supporting that goal, Atmel’s ZigBee-ready product line will include a complete ZigBee and 802.15.4 solution of RF transceivers, tailored microcontrollers, and software and reference designs. Atmel's AT86RF210 Z-Link™ Transceiver, capable of transmitting and receiving modulated digital data over the 868/915 MHz bands with data rates up to 20 kbps and 40 kbps respectively, is currently in development. Another product in development, the AT86ZL3201 Z-Link Controller, is a ZigBee-ready controller, based on Atmel’s high performance AVR® RISC microcontroller core. It includes SRAM and Flash memory and is optimized for 802.15.4 as well as ZigBee applications, and supports all bands (868/915 MHz and 2.4 GHz).

 

[Regnum]

Re: ZigBee

What about ZigBee protocol upper layers specs? I know it was planned to be released on Q4 2004... is it already done? Have anybody ever seen this stuff? (it seems harder to find than original Moses' ten-commandments tablets)
Please, upload it.

 

[dacadc]

Re: ZigBee

I think yes, because Chipcon and Freescale suggests ready to use dev kits.