26. November 2011 by admin.

Use Promo Code code:  TPXH9K2 when you purchase the Powercast Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Wireless Sensors from microchipDIRECT at http://www.microchipdirect.com/ProductSearch.aspx?keywords=TPWR001  Hurry ends  12/1/2011

The Lifetime Power Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Wireless Sensors is a complete demonstration and development platform for creating battery-free wireless sensors (passive wireless sensor tags) powered by RF energy (radio waves). It is designed and configured for extremely low power operation, and the firmware is pre-installed for out-of-the-box operation.

The wireless sensor boards are powered by the P2110 Powerharvester Receiver, which converts RF energy into DC power. In this kit, the TX91501 transmitter is the source of RF energy (915MHz), but other RF sources from 850-950 MHz can also be used for power. The communication from the sensor boards to the access point is 2.4GHz using 802.15.4-compliant radios.

Learn more about Powercast kits at http://www.powercastco.com/products/development-kits/ 

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7. October 2011 by admin.

Register today to have an Avnet representative contact you to schedule this On-Ramp Technical Session.

From:  http://www.em.avnet.com/evs/home/0,1707,RID%253D0%2526CID%253D50625%2526CCD%253DUSA%2526SID%253D32214%2526DID%253DDF2%2526LID%253D32233%2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVS,00.html

MiWi™ Development Environment is Microchip’s proprietary wireless solution which helps customers develop wireless applications and reduce the time to market. The MiWi Development Environment (MiWi DE) package includes support for Microchip’s proprietary protocols - MiWi Mesh and MiWi P2P. These protocols support short-range wireless networking applications. Avnet Memec is providing on-site customer training on this valuable Wireless ecosystem. The 1 hour training with introduce why the MiWi Development Environment is optimized for low-power, low data rate, cost sensitive applications.

This OnRamp will help you:

• Explain the Microchip MiMAC definitions for Microchip RF transceivers.
• Explain the Fundamentals of Microchip MiWi P2P and MiWi protocols.
• Explain Microchip MiApp interface between Wireless Applications and Microchip Proprietary Wireless protocols.
• Have General Concept of Microchip Wireless Development Environment.

Agenda

• Agenda (60 minutes)
• Wireless 101
• Microchip Media Access Control Layer - MiMAC
• Microchip Wireless Protocols
  • Demo 1 [PICDEM PIC18 with MRF24J40 (2.4GHz Radio) and/or MRF49XA (Sub GHz Radio)]
• Microchip Application Interfaces – MiApp
  • Demo 2 [PICDEM PIC18 with MRF24J40 (2.4GHz Radio) and/or MRF49XA (Sub GHz Radio)]
• Microchip Quick Solutions

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24. September 2011 by admin.

View it on demand at http://www.newark.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?bespokepage=newark/en_US/landing/webinar/microchip/microchip.jsp

• Learn about Microchip’s Smart Energy capable solutions for applications such as meters, smart appliances and load controllers.
• Discover how to develop Home and Building automation products using mesh networking capable protocols such as ZigBee or Microchip’s proprietary MiWi™.
• Learn about the latest consumer electronics remote control technology—ZigBee RF4CE protocol and Microchip’s implementation of the stack which has lowest memory footprint in the industry.
• Find out how to enable internet connectivity in your embedded devices by using Microchip’s low power Wi-Fi modules.

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12. May 2011 by admin.

Check out the archives of the live training from the Embedded Systems Conference in Santa Jose May 3-5.

http://www.microchip.com/en_us/events/ESCSV2011/live.html

• Designing for Smart Energy and Low Power Applications
• Connectivity Solutions featuring USB and Ethernet
• Touch Sense and Graphics Solutions

• Wireless Solutions for Embedded Design
• Development Tools Featuring MPLAB® X IDE
• Smart Energy Monitoring Metering and Control

Posted in Wireless, WiFi, Ethernet, MPASM, Seminars & Confrences, Digital Power, Smart Energy, Embedded Systems Design, Tips & Tricks, Product Review, Programmer, Touch Sensing, 16-bit, dsPIC, Motor Control, 32-bit, PIC, ZigBee, Training & Education, USB, 8-bit, Microchip | Print | 1 Comment »

8. January 2011 by admin.

Get it on demand at https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=257559&sessionid=1&key=3F3B7F480D16C80AF513381335244D4A&sourcepage=register

Telehealth describes the use of embedded devices – including smartphones or tablets with 3G/4G connections, devices with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, or other wireless networking technology, or larger platforms with Ethernet – to help people connect with healthcare providers wherever they may be. The setting for a telehealth device can be a clinical environment such as a hospital or doctor’s office, or a home where caregivers aren’t always present. Expanding care from treatment to prevention is the ultimate goal of these new devices, and an expanding market is creating more possibilities to help people and make a difference. With multiple analysts projecting telehealth to grow rapidly into an $8B market in 2012, it’s time to explore the technologies inside telehealth devices and how designers can leverage what’s available now into creating the next breakthrough devices. We’ve drawn on experts in embedded computing with an emphasis in telehealth applications, and our guests on this live event include: 

Speakers 
Ron Riesenbach, VP, Emerging Business for the Ontario Telemedicine Network, on the challenges one of the world’s largest telehealth networks has faced and what they see as needs for connected devices now and in the future 

Steve Kennelly- Senior Manager, Medical Products Group- Microchip Technology, 
Steve has been with Microchip Technology since 1999 and leads the Medical Products Group, which addresses the specific needs of the medical device industry. Initially, he helped establish Microchip as a world-class supplier of automotive products in his role as a marketing manager in the Microchip Automotive Products Group. 

JP Auffret, Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Technology Strategy, on what projects like the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIO) are working on to improve efficiency of care and availability of patient information in telehealth networks, and what that means for devices 

Paul Anderson is VP of Engineering at GrammaTech 
Paul manages GrammaTech’s engineering team and is the architect of the company’s static-analysis tools. He has helped a wide variety of organizations, including NASA, the FDA, the FAA, MITRE, Draper Laboratory, GE, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, apply automated code analysis to critical projects. Paul has worked in the software industry for 18 years, with most of his experience focused on developing static-analysis, automated-testing, and program-transformation tools. 

Moderator 
Don Dingee, editor of Embedded Computing Design, on the overall trends for telehealth devices and eHealth. 

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26. December 2010 by admin.

This Microchip application note discusses outdoor Line-of-Sight (LOS) and indoor antenna range for MRF24WB0MA and MRF24WB0MB modules with various modular certified antennas under specific infrastructure usage models. It also provides detailed information on the measured results and methodologies.

Download it at http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/AppNotes/01363A.pdf 

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21. November 2010 by admin.

Download the App Note from http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1824&appnote=en549917

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10. April 2010 by admin.

Microchip offers a free ZigBee® software protocol stack, enabling lower development and system costs. With its ZigBee compliant platforms, the Microchip stack is written to meet the ZigBee industry standard and ensure interoperability. Embedded system designers can now utilize Microchip’s Free downloadable ZigBee Stack in concert with the Microchip MRF24J40/MRF24J40MA and PIC^® microcontrollers:-       Zero-cost-license and royalty-free ZigBee protocol stack.-       Efficient footprint for entire ZigBee protocol-       Source-code format, allowing designers to customize their products-       Utilize Microchip’s broad portfolio of compatible PIC^® microcontrollers

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28. February 2009 by admin.

Check out http://www.vscp.org

VSCP stands for Very Simple Control Protocol and it is, as the name implies, a very simple protocol indeed ( a protocol is much like a language for machines etc on how they should talk with each other). It is simple because it has been developed for use on low end devices such as micro controllers. But actually its more then just a protocol. Its a complete solution for measurement and control. And even though VSCP is very easy to use it is still very capable and can be used in very demanding control situations.

Except for a very well specified message format the protocol supports global unique identifiers for nodes, a register model to give a flexible interface to node configuration and a model for node functionality.

VSCP does not assume anything about the lower level system. It works with Ethernet TCP/IP, Wireless, Zigbee, Bluetooth, CAN, GPRS, RS-232, USB and everything else you want. Its just a uniform way of describing the systems available. Every control situation can be described and implemented using VSCP.

A normal user does not see or know much of VSCP anyway. Its just the underlying control system that makes things possible. Much the same way as someone driving a car does not need to know a lot about motors.

Some features:

• Free and open for commercial and other use.

• Have two levels. Level I and Level II where level I is designed with CAN as the least common denominator. Can be used for TCP/IP, UDP, RF, Mains, etc etc.

• Has globally unique id’s for each node.

• Has a mechanism to automatically assign a unique id to a newly installed node.

• Can use “decision matrixes” and “registers” as a uniform way to configure nodes.

• Has software and drivers for Windows and Linux. More added all the time.

• Has a common specification language “MDF” that describe a module in a uniform way that can be used by set up software and such.

and more…

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