PIC & Ethernet

Oct 19, 2007 7 Replies
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Hi Folks,



I'm an engineering student trying to get started with my senior project Basically, I want to communicate with a bunch of devices (and th Internet) using Ethernet. I did some research and found a fe micro-controllers with built-in Ethernet capabilities. However, thes require separate programmers that are quite costly. So I'm thinking o using a regular PIC chip that I can program using one of the programmer in our school lab. However, my biggest problem is to find a way to get PIC chip to communicate through Ethernet. Do you have any ideas o information as to how to get this to work? Any input would be greatl appreciated.



Thanks!


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Have you even tried Google? This problem has been solved many many times and there are designs, documents and lots of code freely available. A search for "ethernet pic" brought up loads of useful hits.

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Luminary Micro provide some ultra low cost dev kits for their processors that have build in MAC and PHY. They also provide source code. All you need to program it is a USB cable. A free compiler is also available.

I would consider using one the low cost development kits available from Microchips global distribution network, along with the source code and application notes that can be freely downloaded from their WEB site (along with their free compiler).

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Lot depends on at what level (how deep) you wish to apply. Some device with Ethernet ready and open src lib are their or u can take a micro controller and attach it with ethernet controller ic ( available from national semi and many others ) and develop whole ur own version.

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Microchip sells a PICDEM.net 2 board which has a PIC18 processor and ethernet. You can go to their web site for more info.

Paul Bosselaers

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The AT91SAM7X with built in Ethernet, can be programmed using a serial or USB cable. The AT91-ISP (containing SAMBA) is free of charge from

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Best Regards, Ulf Samuelsson This is intended to be my personal opinion which may, or may not be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB
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How much do you think is a reasonable cost for such a programmer?

Petter

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