Personal Area Networks

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 P2P–Simple Peer to Peer Star Network, light weight stack
• MiWi PRO–Supports Mesh network topology, Up to 8000 nodes and 64 hops

These protocols support short-range wireless networking applications.

The MiWi Development Environment is optimized for low-power, low data rate, cost sensitive application. It also offers a smaller foot-print relative to the open standard based ZigBee® compliant protocol stack.

The main advantages of MiWi Development Environment are:

• Ease in architecting and deploying wireless networks
• Ease in portability of the applications across different Microchip RF transceivers
• Ease in scaling network topologies under the MiWi protocol framework