Ethernet Interface Offers Dual-Core Processing, Hardware TCP/IP Networking
The latest Ethernet interface Click board from MIKROE offers Ethernet connectivity as well as integrated dual-core processing and hardware TCP/IP networking for IoT gateways. This gives developers the tools to rapidly provide proof of concept, then prototype and code new embedded projects.
The ETH WIZ 3 Click is based on the W55RP20 SiP from WIZNet, which integrates a W5500 Ethernet controller with a Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core microcontroller. It has a hardwired TCP/IP stack supporting multiple network protocols, an integrated Ethernet PHY, a dual Arm Cortex-M0+ processor running at up to 133 MHz, on-chip flash and SRAM memory, selectable SPI or UART communication via a COMM SEL jumper, and a USB Type-C interface.
Features include TCP activity indication, status LEDs for link diagnostics, exposed Ethernet magnetics center taps for optional power-over-Ethernet (PoE) implementation, and accessible debugging test points.
A recent addition to MIKROE’s 1970-strong family of mikroBUS-enabled Click boards, the board also features the ClickID function for automatic identification by the host system. Devices can be used on any host system supporting the mikroBUS standard and there are mikroSDK open-source libraries for evaluation and customization.
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Alix Paultre
Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF
Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.
Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.