Re: Looking for boards with an 802.15.4 chip

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 12:02:29AM +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 28.07.2016 19:40, Don Zickus wrote:
> > Hi Alexander,
> > 
> > I was wondering what boards/chips folks like yourself use to develop/test
> > the 802.15.4 work?  I noticed the website  http://wpan.cakelab.org/ mentions
> > a bunch of boards.  Some of those pointers don't work and the ones that do,
> > show standalone boards that need to be wired up to a SPI bus.
> > 
> > I assume the SPI bus is easily found on a rPI-like board.  Is it difficult to
> > hook one of them up to an x86 desktop?
> 
> You might be able to do this with some USB dongle exposing some GPIOs to
> to the kernel but I never used anything like that. Most of my
> transceivers are connected to Pi's. So it goes down to embedded.
> 
> I'm in the lucky position though to have two ATUSB dongles which are
> simple USB dongles and get connected to your x86 systems with ease.
> They work out of the box in mainline since 4.1 and the firmware is open
> source as well. The problem right now is that it is now longer being sold.

This sounds like a simple way to get started...

> 
> We are working on changing this though. See my mail from a few minutes
> ago to this list about interest for a new ATUSB production batch.
> Right now we would estimate them being on sale again sometime in October
> (the smaller fabs we are using for SMT is on holiday and we also need to
> prepare things in our spare time).
> 
> If this is to far away, fair enough. If it does not really matter to you
> and you would have an interest to use them please let me know so I can
> better estimate the needed number of devices for the batch.

I don't see an archives for this mailing list, so I can't see your previous
email.  How much would this cost? I might be up for buying 5 or so.

Cheers,
Don