May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
13h 54m
English
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Connectivity
In today's ever-increasingly connected ecosystem of the Internet of Things (IoT), having on-board networking capability on the MCU can be a boon to a project. . . as long as the right firmware exists to drive it. It is important to realize that having a peripheral is not the same as having full functionality. For example, just because an MCU supports a reduced media independent interface (RMII) and a physical layer in networking (PHY) does not mean you can immediately get a full TCP/IP stack—all of that firmware functionality needs to come from somewhere. Potential connectivity baked into devices can include Ethernet, RMII, 802.11 (WiFi), 802.15.1 (Bluetooth), and 802.15.4 (Zigbee, HART, and so on).
When it comes to wireless ...