Advances in the ZigBee Platform
It seems like every networking standard in the industrial world has one company that is a champion and others that will follow along hoping to continue to lock customers in with proprietary networks rather than win customers with superior innovation. As I wrote on June 11 (below) about Wes Iversen's reporting from the Sensors Expo, Ember seems to be the ZigBee networking champion. This month while I was vacationing, Ember made two product announcements. One is a system on a chip for developers building wireless mesh networking products. The other is a product to help developers who have already chosen other microprocessors make the leap to ZigBee.
Ember calls the EM250 "the world[base ']s first ZigBee system-on-a-chip.[per thou] It includes the company's second-generation ZigBee software stack called EmberZNet 2.0 (which is also its fifth generation mesh networking stack), as well as new software tools for rapid application development and debugging.
The Ember EM250 is an 802.15.4-based semiconductor system built to be ZigBee compliant that integrates a programmable microprocessor, RF radio, network protocol stack and memory into a tiny, single-chip solution.
The other product is a network processor version of the same product family for OEMs that prefer to build ZigBee applications using popular third-party microcontrollers (MCUs). The EM260 network processor provides advanced ZigBee wireless networking features and functionality in conjunction with application microcontrollers from Atmel, Texas Instruments and others.
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