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3. Product Development

Jennic supplies all the development tools and networking stacks needed to enable end product development to occur

quickly and efficiently. These are all freely available from Jennic’s support website:

http://www.jennic.com/support/ .

A range of evaluation/developer kits is also available, allowing products to be quickly breadboarded. Efficient

development of software applications is enabled by the provision of a complete, unlimited, software developer kit.

Together with the available libraries for the IEEE802.15.4 MAC and the ZigBee network stack, this package provides

everything required to develop application code and to trial it with hardware representative of the final module.

The modules can be programmed by the user, for both development and production, using Jennic supplied software.

They can also be supplied ready loaded with customer defined software if required. The

JN-UG-3007 Flash Loader

User Guide

[5], describes how to put the module into programming mode, download software onto the module and to

load individual MAC addresses. Access to the on-chip peripherals, MAC and ZigBee stack software is provided

through specific APIs. These are described in the JN-RM-2001 Hardware Peripheral Library Reference Manual [3],

JN-RM-2002 Stack Software Reference Manual [4] and JN-RM-2014 ZigBee Application Development API Reference

Manual

. Additional information is available on the Jennic support website.[6]

3.1. JN5121 Single Chip Wireless Microcontroller

The JN5121-xxx-Myy series is constructed around the JN5121 single chip wireless microcontroller, which includes

the radio system, a 32-bit RISC CPU, ROM and RAM memory and a range of analogue and digital peripherals.

The chip is described fully in

JN-DS-JN5121 Datasheet for JN5121 single chip wireless microcontroller [2].