Atmel Zigbee solutions

Donald,

Zigbee news from Atmel - what's key here, is a move from generic uC/Chip sales, into also selling the Zigbee SW stack, so users have minimal SW developments for their links.

This will be key to their AVR sales, very like CypressMicrosystems promote their PsOC - they include Sw support flows, so customers need less skills.

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$6.75/100K for a chipset is not super-cheap, but from a NZ standpoint, the Zigbee solution is probably better than Bluetooth. Zigbee is slower, but gives more range, and suits Alarms, Security, Wireless Logging and similar near-field applications.

Would likely also make a great marine-instrumentation link on boats, for non-graphical interfaces.

-jg

Any price showing on the AT89S8253 yet ?

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Jim Granville
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Trouble is, they're using a 900MHz radio, whereas everyone else in the ZigBee/802.15.4 world is doing 2.4GHz. I personally would recommend this device:

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(Disclaimer: I designed half of it ;) )

Cheers, JonB

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Jon Beniston

Looks like a neat device from the press release.

It's too bad I have no idea what the part number or ballpark price might be - it seems the press release isn't geared much for the design engineer. :-/

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John_H

OKI expects that you won't be shy and can contact your local rep or disti. :)

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Don't know what the OKI part number is, but the CompXs device is the CX1540. For pricing, contact: snipped-for-privacy@CompXs.com

Cheers, Jon

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Jon Beniston

Nope, no move, just another group within using the AVR for a good purpose. The AT86RF401 is the same story. The AT76C711 AVR has been around for some time using the same concept. The follow on device AT76C712 is moving into the general purpose domain, and will be sold to both Fred in the Shed and Joe Sixpack. Nice 48 MHz AVR with USB and UARTs.

Each has their own uses... Europe fought for 30 years to determine which should prevail:

Catolicism *OR* Protestantism.

Guess what ....

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Ulf Samuelsson

What? You're saying both ZigBee and Bluetooth are a waste of time?

Cheers, JonB

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Jon Beniston

"Jon Beniston" skrev i meddelandet news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com...

No I am saying that discussing which standard is *best*, to determine which should be dropped, is a waste of time because both will be here for the foreseeable future. Disussing where each standard fits best is OK.

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