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News Release from: Silicon Laboratories | Subject: ZigBee development kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 September 2005
Kit is quick start to ZigBee network
applications
Silicon Laboratories bills its new ZigBee development kit as an optimal industry-compliant development platform allowing customers to easily develop ZigBee network applications.
Silicon Laboratories bills its new ZigBee development kit as an optimal industry-compliant development platform allowing customers to easily develop ZigBee network applications for wireless automation, industrial, medical and residential monitoring and control applications The 2.4GHz ZigBee development kit provides all of the hardware and software needed for a customer to immediately begin developing a ZigBee network solution
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Silicon Laboratories' ZigBee development kit provides six development boards with antennas, a power supply, cabling software and documentation.
Preloaded with an easy-to-use demonstration GUI, the kit provides a graphical representation of 13 typical ZigBee topologies and supports three demo applications to monitor data from any of the networked devices.
The development kit also includes a full set of application development software and tools, including the Silicon Laboratories' IDE, an 802.15.4 MAC and ZigBee network layer protocol stack library.
"Silicon Laboratories' new development kit allows customers to focus on application development rather than hardware selection and integration", said Derrell Coker, Vice President of Silicon Laboratories.
"Our ZigBee development kits are complemented by our full-featured MCUs and easy-to-use modules, codeveloped with software provider Helicomm, resulting in a comprehensive solution suite that speeds time to market for customers developing products for the short range wireless market".
Silicon Laboratories' family of ZigBee-ready solutions leverages the company's leading 8bit microcontroller (MCU) products, which combine high-precision analogue peripherals with a low-current consumption, high-throughput (up to 100MIPS) 8051 CPU and up to 128Kbyte on-chip Flash memory.
Silicon Laboratories and ZigBee protocol stack provider Helicomm have also codeveloped a family of ZigBee-ready turnkey modules that includes an optimised Silicon Laboratories' 8051-based MCU, an 802.15.4 compliant radio and the applicable MAC and ZigBee protocol software offering high performance, ultralow power and highly integrated solutions.
Silicon Laboratories' ZigBee development kit includes six development boards with antennas, a power supply, cabling, software and documentation.
The development kit is available now for $950 and can be purchased online.
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