Wi-Fi^®

Development Tools

MRF Wi-Fi^® Series

Microchip has engineered a Wi-Fi^® solution for a broad range of Microchip's 8/16/32-bit PIC^® microcontrollers. The solution tightly integrates the Wi-Fi^® driver into Microchip's TCP/IP networking stack so that developers do not have to download a separate Wi-Fi^® driver. The solution has all of the hardware, software, documentation and example applications that enable a customer to be prototyping a Wi-Fi^® application on the same day they received their development kit.

Development Kit	MCU Platform	Source Code
PICDEM™.net2 + AC164136-4 PICtail™/PICtail™ Plus	8-bit
Explorer 16 + AC164136-4 Pictail™/Pictail™ Plus	16-bit
PIC32 Starter Kit + I/O Expansion Board + AC164136-4 Pictail™/Pictail™ Plus	32-bit
Explorer 16 + AC164136-4 Pictail™/Pictail™ Plus	32-bit
Multimedia Expansion Board	32-bit
Wi-Fi® G Demo Board	32-bit

RN Wi-Fi^® Series

Microchip offers several easy to use evaluation kits for developers using RN Wi-Fi^® modules. The compact, USB-powered RN-171-EK and RN-131-EK are ideal for customer demos and for evaluating the RN171 and RN131 Wi-Fi^® modules. The RN-171-PICtail and RN-131-PICtail easily add Wi-Fi connectivity to Microchip’s 8-/16-/32-bit microcontrollers.

Development Tool	Description	Contents
RN-131-EK	Evaluation kit for the RN131 module–USB and TTL/UART interface, 2 pushbuttons for SoftAP and WPS mode.	RN131 Evaluation board, USB cable
RN-171-EK	Evaluation kit for the RN171 module–USB and TTL/UART interface, powered by battery or USB cable, 2 pushbuttons for SoftAP and WPS mode.	RN171 Evaluation board, USB cable
RN-131-PICtail™	Development kit based on the RN131–PICtail™ plugs into the PIC18 Explorer Board and the PICtail™ Plus connector on the Explorer 16, adding wireless functionality to the microcontroller.	RN131 PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board, 2 jumpers
RN-171-PICtail™	Development kit based on the RN171–PICtail plugs into the PIC18 Explorer Board and the PICtail Plus connector on the Explorer-16, adding wireless functionality to the microcontroller.	RN171 PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board, 2 jumpers
RN-XV-EK1	Evaluation kit for the RNXV module series, USB interface, 2 pushbuttons to control WPS and to reset the module	RNXV Evaluation Board, USB cable
RN-XV-RD2	Dual relay reference design for the RNXV module series, USB interface, 4 pushbuttons	RNXV Reference design board, USB cable

All documentation, tools, drivers, and utilities for development kits can be found in the Resources tab.