Various Vendors that sell chips for doing wireless communication

Nordic

Chipcon

• Interfacing Chipcon's CC1000 with a PIC16F876? (written for the IAR C compiler) CC1000 to PIC16F876 App. Note (see link for other Chipcon application notes)
  • this is the one that Dan Santo's group is using
  • the range on these transceivers should be at least 100 feet

Microchip (RF PIC)

Lynx

General info about wireless communication

Frequencies (400MHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz)

smaller antenna ------>

<-----longer range for same power

-- WillP? - 02 Dec 2004

• AN009_chipcon_MCU_interfaceing.zip: App Note for interfacing PIC16F8xx? w/ CC1000/1050