How to choose the wireless MCU development tools and platforms

1) Depending on your application needs, choose the right wireless MCU development tools
If your main requirement is the application of cost considerations, and the application of relatively simple, such as: design a simple remote control products, including remote control of a curtain, the light switch, a simple point to point data transmission, remote control doorbells, wireless electronic signs , wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, wireless game controller, etc., work in 300MHZ 2.4GHZ RF system high-frequency band, you can choose more mature and affordable NRF9E5/NRF24E1/CC1010 wireless microcontroller chip and lower prices C51RF- 2 / 4 series of emulators and development tools; If you use MCU RF technology solutions, you can use cc1100/cc2500/NRF2401/NRF905 and other wireless chips and wireless Dragon S3000 (8051 processor RF chip) development platforms or wireless Dragon S3100 ( C8051F310/314 RF processor chip).
If your application is more complex, there are more nodes to work together, the need for more complex network topology to connect, such as super-star network, tree network, mesh network, or need short-range wireless compatibility 802,15.4 International communication standard, applications include: underground personnel security system, high precision real-time positioning system, the latest high-capacity wireless sensor networks, automotive electronics, digital home systems, container tracking systems, RFID systems, meet the 802.15.4 standard for wireless networking home appliances, wireless security systems, etc., working in the above
2.4GHZ high-frequency band, you can choose C51RF-3 CC2430/CC2431 ZIGBEE/802.15.4 series emulator and advanced wireless MCU development tools and development platform.
If your application is to require very small size, relatively simple network topology, very fast development time, compared with the number of wireless nodes, generally less than 6 months; applications include: wireless watches, wireless sports equipment, medical micro-sensors, you and other wireless networks can be used NRF24AP1/NRF24L01 chips and wireless Dragon S3000 (8051 processor RF chip) development platform.
2) according to their level of knowledge and technology base development platform for selected wireless microcontroller
For the less exposure to high-frequency electronic design engineer or based on the microcontroller itself, the lack of engineers and university students, in order to quickly complete a wireless communication system development / design
Meter is a challenging job, to correspond to this challenge, the need for a gradual learning process and have some laboratory equipment and testing environment; Wireless Communications Dragon these needs fully into account the development of our electronic forum, so designed for different levels of work-based SCM / wireless MCU development tools for your choice.
If you do not microcontroller based on the 8051 are not familiar with the basic, you can choose to start from C51RF-S3100, the system microcontroller and learning is to learn wireless communication and as a whole, stretch from the microcontroller to implement the wireless communication, you use a platform, the study can be completed and wireless communications microcontroller to learn.
If you are new to wireless chip technology, you can choose from low-price C51RF-2 / 4 series wireless MCU development system to start, use have been published have been published and is a wireless communications company and the Northern Press Dragon co-published <Wireless SCM technology Series> supporting materials, hands-on practice on how a simple wireless communications, development of simple practical applications of wireless, high-frequency circuits, wireless communication theory, hardware and software problems that may arise, how to solve the data communication software programming the practical problems and so on, have a complete understanding and experience; and then at the beginning of a more complex development tools for wireless network design and development arm.
For in this area has experienced, and product development needs to design the wireless network, you can directly select C51RF-3-BK/PK ZIGBEE/802.15.4 series of emulators and development tools and development platform.
3) according to their economic capacity, choose their own development platform for wireless microcontroller
Learning SCM technology and wireless technology, a wireless MCU development platform, corresponding to many of the less electronic engineers and college students, graduate students, the price problem is to consider the issue, currently on the market many of these tools, in principle, the more prices high functionality, the stronger will be the development will be more convenient; development tools, but low prices, too, can achieve the purpose of study and practice, Chengdu Wireless Communications Dragon actual needs taken into account, in particular, developed a series of ultra-low prices wireless MCU development tools that covers the basic short-range wireless communications, ultra-low prices ZIGBEE/802.15.4 also covers wireless network development tools.
C51RF-3-ZDMS economic economical wireless ZigBee network learning system
The system performance Microchip's PIC microcontroller family based on SCM software to use CC2420 radio frequency chip RF transceiver for ZigBee, based on the MPLAB Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and MPLABC18C/PIC18C compiler, the compiler supports MSI (1.0-3.5 version ) and the whole open source ZigBee stack. Support the streamlining of functional devices (RFD) and full-function devices (FFD), modular software design, the use of cooperative multi-tasking architecture.
C51RF-3-ZDMS wireless ZigBee learning system include:
The ZigBee module two 2.4G (CC2420 PIC); two development floor; two 2.4G ordinary antenna; a serial line; a power supply; a development CD-ROM (including system specification, ZigBee protocol stack source code etc.). Individuals to purchase a full set of the current ZigBee system Price: 1280 yuan / sets.
C51RF-2 / 4 Wireless MCU Development System
Development CC1010/NRF9E5/NRF24E1, is also currently offer price for the sale of individual users.
C51RF-S3000 system, the price was only a few hundred yuan
That is, you only spend a few hundred yuan, plus your own home computer, you can learn step onto the wireless, controlling the wireless journey, learning at home, the knowledge and principles of wireless communications.
Many electronics engineers / engineers familiar with the 8-bit microcontroller chip and technology, to start their own learning and other 32-bit ARM microcontroller technology, but also to spend up to several thousand yuan to buy ARM development tools, at home, ARM development platform to build their own new electronic products introduced ; fact, from the electronic / microcontroller technology development perspective, the microcontroller from the 8-32 of the development, mainly in the amount of speed on the changes in the wireless microcontroller and wireless network integration, is the microcontroller qualitative leap in development from a technical perspective if electronic engineers should be further development of that step, then the wireless should learn ARM is more important than learning, more urgent.
4) The corresponding materials, choose their own development platform for wireless microcontroller
Learning wireless microcontroller and wireless communications. Wireless network technology, you also need the right materials.
You can read a variety of wireless microcontroller data sheet, you can also see if the network can also see if there is, as "short-range wireless data communications and combat entry" This popular books like the wireless, but at present these Practical Wireless books too, I hope our university professors, some more practical books, current books bookstores are mostly wireless theory, complex formulas, people look very difficult. But how to develop as single machine case of new product development, as do real programs, so the circuit board, to debug. Test, the last to make a practical wireless products, hard to find in these books, and this is what we need most things electronic engineers.
You can choose to Chengdu, the wireless communications technology company and the Dragon of Aeronautics and Astronautics Beijing University Press, wireless microcontroller series together, has introduced the first series, "short-range wireless data communication, entry and combat" (ISBN :7 -81077-942-7 ) Xinhua Bookstore is now sold in the country.
The wireless microcontroller series in the world were widely used by the wireless system on chip (SoC) NRF9E5, NRF24E1, CC1010,
CC2420/CC2430/CC2431/CC1110/CC2510 the latest wireless system on chip (SoC) and NRF905, NRF2401, CC1100, CC2500 radio chip, the latest center to introduce the key technologies of wireless communication FDMA, TDMA, CSMA, FHSS and other basic principles and from the point point, multipoint, mesh wireless network to the basic principles of wireless networks. The series is characterized by a strong practical, that you yourself through a lot of wireless communications and wireless network projects to test. Let the reader to experience what is wireless communication, what is the wireless network, how to wireless communications, and how their library staff to form a dynamic dimension low-cost, highly efficient wireless network ... ...
The book also includes a wireless from a two-way remote control, long-range RFID systems, home security monitoring systems, wireless sensors, wireless temperature, remote monitoring, Wireless RF232, wireless network monitoring ward, a large number of underground wireless location systems and wireless networks wireless SOC example of the practical application of project design. The second from the book in the series, three will be published one after another recently, the other will also be introduced in this publication.
Used as a textbook in the series, with C51RF series of development tools, the module will make you more officers back to the entry door of microcontroller and wireless microcontrollers, wireless microcontroller to make your journey of learning, easier and easier.
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