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News Release from: Jennic | Subject: ZigBee network stack
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 May 2006

ZigBee network stack available online

Jennic has made both its ZigBee network stack object library and all associated support materials publicly available on its support website

In a semiconductor industry first, Jennic has made both its ZigBee network stack object library and all associated support - including user guides, programming and reference manuals and application notes - publicly available on its support website. Together with the company's wireless microcontrollers, modules and development kits - which include reference designs and applications - the new support capability has been launched to help make ZigBee easy to adopt by network and product developers for home, building and industrial automation applications.

Jim Lindop, CEO of Jennic commented: 'We have a broad geographic base of customers who want to quickly develop ZigBee-enabled products but with minimal effort in order to achieve fast time to market objectives'.

'This customer demand and the wide variety of diverse applications can be met more easily using our wireless microcontroller, freely available software development tools and public access to a ZigBee network stack'.

He added: 'With the public support site, offering a simple library and making ZigBee understandable, we have a great infrastructure that can support many new customers per month and we can easily expect to have thousands of developers taking advantage of this online facility'.

'We believe that ZigBee products can only get to mass market adoption if customers are able to get single-chip products like ours off-the-shelf, and they don't have to pay for both tweaks to the product and for training and field support'.

'It should all be made easy for them'.

'Developers want the ability to easily understand what ZigBee wireless can do for their application, and then try it out rather than be faced with complex solutions', says Lindop.

The ZigBee network stack available on the website can be evaluated on Jennic's JN5121-EK010 developer kit and the wireless application programmed onto chips and modules supplied by Jennic.

Priced at US $1299, and available ex-stock from Jennic's distributors, the kit contains all the software tools and hardware required to develop and monitor wireless sensor network products, including the ZigBee network stack.

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