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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 Mesh and MiWi P2P. These protocols support short-range wireless networking applications. For more detailed information on these protocols, please check the respective application notes. 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.
MiWi Development Environment mainly consists of two interface layers:
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MiApp - Using the MiApp interface layer, the application developer can easily switch between different Microchip proprietary wireless protocols such as MiWi Mesh and MiWi P2P without having to change the application firmware.
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MiMAC - Using MiMAC layer, the developer can easily switch between different RF transceivers such as MRF24J40 and MRF89XA.
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The main advantages of MiWi Development Environment are the ease in developing wireless applications and also ease in portability of the applications across different Microchip RF transceivers and different wireless protocols depending on the application requirements, without having to change the application firmware.
MiWi Development Environment Stack for 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit PIC Microcontrollers is part of the Microchip Applications Libraries (MAL).
To get started, click on the image below:
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MiWi – Supported Development Tools
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To get started with MiWi Development, you can choose one of the following development tools depending on your application requirements. You would have to purchase at least a pair of boards to evaluate the wireless communication and MiWi features.
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Wireless Development Studio
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The Wireless Development Studio (WDS) is a Java based Graphic User Interface which allows quick and easy development of wireless applications based on the MiWi™ protocols. It features a MiWi protocol sniffer for monitoring, debugging and gathering information and a configurator with a graphical user interface that enables the simple customization and configuration of wireless networks.
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