Prop WiFi with ZG2100M ?
smbaker
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Has anyone looked into interfacing this with the prop?
http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en547511#1
It's relatively inexpensive ($29.40) and has an SPI interface. The thing that was unclear to me was how much of the TCP stack is supported on chip and how much is required to be done in the microcontroller. From a quick-scan of the datasheet, it looked like a MAC-level device, which I'm guessing would put the software complexity on a similar level to the ENC28J60 that is supported on the prop. It does have built in hardware decryption, which is probably a necessity for doing any of the various WiFi security protocols.
Microchip supplies a free PIC-based TCP/IP stack so one simple way to get it working with the prop would probably be to use a PIC as a go-between, but that seems silly to need to involve another microcontroller.
Anyhow, I was just thinking back to some of last year's prop WiFi threads that never seemed to get resolved and wondering if maybe this was a solution.
http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en547511#1
It's relatively inexpensive ($29.40) and has an SPI interface. The thing that was unclear to me was how much of the TCP stack is supported on chip and how much is required to be done in the microcontroller. From a quick-scan of the datasheet, it looked like a MAC-level device, which I'm guessing would put the software complexity on a similar level to the ENC28J60 that is supported on the prop. It does have built in hardware decryption, which is probably a necessity for doing any of the various WiFi security protocols.
Microchip supplies a free PIC-based TCP/IP stack so one simple way to get it working with the prop would probably be to use a PIC as a go-between, but that seems silly to need to involve another microcontroller.
Anyhow, I was just thinking back to some of last year's prop WiFi threads that never seemed to get resolved and wondering if maybe this was a solution.
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