CCS Zigbee stack?

[johanan]

Did any one port the Zigbee stack from Microchip demo kit C18 stack to CCS? any palnes for Zigbee from CCS in the near future?

[valemike]

I bought the demo kits as soon as they came out. Even with the new Microchip stack revision, i see that you still can't implement a router yet.

It seems this Microchip implementation is only good for a hobbyist's budget. As far as any serious Zigbee implementation that is going to be sold commercially, it looks like the multi-thousand $$ development kits with pre-FCC-certified (?) costly stacks and API are what seem to be the only sure way to get your zigbee product to market. I'd rather spend the $5K-$10K on a certified development system than to pay a team of engineers re-invent the wheel with software that will still need more expensive certification testing.

Furthermore, Freescale and Ember have one-chip solutions that don't need an SPI connection between a micro and the transceiver.

Does anyone know if Microchip's evolving stack is developed to conform to FCC rules? And the timeline for when they'll have router and coordinator functionality in there? Until then, how can any PIC user make a zigbee system that they can sell commercially?

[Darren Rook]

Like Mike said, the general consensus is Microchip's code isn't worth it right now.