Zigbee info from TI (Texas Instruments)
by ziggyK - June 15th, 2009.Filed under: Learning Zigbee. Tagged as: Brian Blum, forums, learn about Zigbee, Texas Instrument, TI, ZigBee information.
As we are cranking on getting the basics set around the dev platform etc, we will try to do a couple of updates a week with hopefully interesting info around Zigbee. We got a really good comment on our post about “where do you start with Zigbee”. It came from Brian Blum at TI. There was a lot of good information so we decided to publish it as part of a post (his comment is at the end of the post)
A couple of things we really like that he suggests are http://www.tizigbeedemo.com/, not just the fact that they have a huge network of nodes but also the cool way they present it and the other one is the TI community. In Blums comment it says the page adress is [www.community.ti.com] but the right adress is [community.ti.com] without the www, with the prefix you get “can’t find the server”. The forums there are really good even if you do not use TI solutions.
ziggyK
Brian Blums comment:
My name is Brian Blum and I work as Product Marketing Engineering for Texas Instruments in the Low-Power RF group responsible for ZigBee, RF4CE and the SimpliciTI protocols which operate on our various low power radios. I saw your post and wanted to comment with some additional places you can get more information on ZigBee and TI’s LPRF portfolio of solutions (not to be self serving, but there are several TI links that are a great source of ZigBee information). Aside from the main information available at http://www.ti.com/zigbee, I would also like to recommend a website featuring a large ZigBee network that operates continuously for the purposes of proving our extensive ZigBee functionality including scaling the network to over 100 nodes and testing various configurations of the network including varying throughput and duty cycle of nodes (http://www.tizigbeedemo.com/). Additionally, I would suggest readers visit and sign up for the TI E2E community (www.community.ti.com) where you can post questions and search for information on problems already resolved or under discussion with respect to LPRF hardware, software or general questions about ZigBee, RF4CE or other networking protocols. As a final point I would like to mention that Freaklabs is a great forum to check out for those interested in ZigBee or other network protocols.
I hope this gets you and your readers started in the right direction.
