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CCS Inc. and Ember have announced a partnership to offer a low cost development platform for ZigBee products using Microchip’s PIC family of microcontrollers.
CCS’ new Wireless Development Kit--Ember Edition combines Ember’s EM260 ZigBee network co-processor and EmberZNet ZigBee stack with CCS’s prototyping board, compiler and tools. Priced starting at under $250, the kit gives developers a low-cost method to start building ZigBee wireless networking applications, as well as for companies who have standardized product development on the PIC microcontroller platform.
The kit includes two wireless prototype boards integrating Microchip’s PIC16 8-bit flash microcontrollers with Ember’s EM260 chips and stack, a CCS C Compiler, in-circuit debugging and programming tools, DC adapters and cables, exercise booklet and carrying case.
The EM260 chip integrates an IEEE 802.15.4 radio, a network processor and onboard memory to run a complete ZigBee network protocol stack. It offers Microchip customers building ZigBee products dramatic reductions in component size, cost and power consumption, while delivering twice the wireless range of competitive ZigBee radios, said the company.
In addition to full support for the ZigBee standard, EmberZNet supports application profiles for home controls as well as user-defined network applications. It also features an Ember transport layer to provide more reliable wireless communication between nodes and enables distributed bindings.
The kit is available starting in May.
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