ZigBee radio goes IP.(leading edge)(Jennic)(Brief Article)

EDN, April, 2004 by Cravotta, Nicholas

JENNIC HAS ANNOUNCED the availability of a suite of IP (intellectual-property) cores for ZigBee (www.zigbee.org) wireless applications. The ZigBee Alliance, an association of companies working toward standardization of wireless-network monitoring and control products, based the PHY (physical) and MAC (media-access-control) layers on the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless-personal-area-network standard. The suite includes a 2.4-GHz IEEE 802.15.4-compliant radio in 0.18-micron RF CMOS, an O-QPSK (quadrature-phase-shift-keying) modem, a baseband controller, and a MAC-protocol stack, which companies can combine with their own IP.

The radio has a resistive, differential RF port, an integrated transmitter/receiver switch, a VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator), channel...

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