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News Release from: Cyan Technology | Subject: CMX-MicroNet TCP/IP stack
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 August 2002
Microcontroller gains cut-down TCP/IP
stack
CMX Systems and Cyan Technology have combined to put the CMX-MicroNet TCP/IP stack on the Cyan eCOG1 16bit engine.
CMX Systems and Cyan Technology have combined to put the CMX-MicroNet TCP/IP stack on the Cyan eCOG1 16bit engine Thanks to a joint commitment to a low-cost, high-performance solution, the Cyan-CMX solution sharply reduces the cost of networking devices and Internet connectivity
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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To facilitate customer support, CMX and Cyan have formed a distribution agreement in which Cyan can directly offer the complete CMX-MicroNet solution to its clients.
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This tight power control and high performance is strongly complemented by CMX-MicroNet, a very small footprint TCP/IP software stack, developed to provide networking and Internet connectivity for the most stringent real-time communication demands that the 8 and 16bit designer faces.
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Designers working with the novel eCOG1 ultra-low-power 16bit RISC microcontroller and CyanIDE development environment can now download a free TCP/IP stack from the Cyan website.
With the CMX-MicroNet stack and a rich assortment of communication peripherals, serial interfaces and timers, eCOG1 makes an ideal communications engine for Internet-enabled devices, handheld instrumentation, intelligent sensors, and PDA peripherals.
Chuck Behrmann, president and CEO of CMX, said, "We are very pleased that Cyan Technology has selected CMX-MicroNet as a networking tool for the eCOG1.
Given the complete integration of CMX-MicroNet to eCOG1, the networking and Internet connectivity aspects of the design are complete and developers can focus on the device application.
With our no-royalty fee structure and Cyan's commitment to offer a low-cost hardware solution, Cyan can offer its customers an unmatched combination of price and performance that can be purchased directly from a single source".
"Designers are being asked to integrate networking and Internet connectivity in a host of devices", notes David Griffiths, Cyan Technology's CEO.
"CMX technology has a reputation for out-of-the-box connectivity-a strength we want to bring our customers.
These capabilities, along with a mature software development tool chain and development board, ensure that our customers get the responsiveness and functionality they need in an exceptionally low-power device".
CMX-MicroNet is a scaled down TCP/IP software stack with a total ROM footprint of 3-20Kbit, depending on configuration, for 8bit processors or those 16bit processors that require a single-chip solution with no external memory.
CMX-MicroNet supports more 8 and 16bit microprocessors than any other existing solution.
CMX-MicroNet is currently available, starting at $5500 for the base system.
All CMX software includes complete source code, no royalties on shipped products, and free technical support/updates.
The CMX-MicroNet TCP/IP stack is available directly from Cyan Technology starting at $5500.
eCOG1 sells for $10 per 10,000.
The comprehensive eCOG1 development kit offers an eCOG1 development board priced at $299 and a free set of software development tools that includes an assembler, verified ANSI-C compiler, software simulator and in-circuit emulator/debugger.
A CMX-MicroNet demo will be shipped freely to developers for evaluation along with the eCOG1 development tools.
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