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Atmel AVR2052
8200M-AVR-11/11
2 Overview
Atmel BitCloud is a full-featured, professional-grade, embedded software ZigBee
stack from Atmel. The stack provides a software development platform for reliable,
scalable, secure wireless applications running on Atmel microcontrollers and radio
transceivers. BitCloud is designed to support a broad ecosystem of user-designed
applications addressing diverse requirements while enabling a full spectrum of
software customization.
The BitCloud stack is fully compliant with the Atmel ZigBee PRO and ZigBee
standards for wireless sensing and control. It provides an augmented set of APIs,
which, while maintaining full compliance with the standard, offer extended
functionality designed with developers’ convenience and ease-of-use in mind.
2.1 Supported platforms
The following hardware platforms are supported by the BitCloud SDK.
Table 2-1.
Supported hardware platforms.
Name in this
document
Platform
(MCU + RF)
Supported
modules
Supported
external flash
for OTAU
Supported evaluation kit
SDK package
ZigBit
®
ATmega1281
+ AT86RF230
ATZB-24-B0
ATZB-24-A2
ATZB-A24-UFL
ATZB-900-B0
AT25F2048,
AT45DB041
N/A
BitCloud for ZigBit
megaRF
ATmega128RFA1
N/A
AT45DB041
(only 264-byte
pages)
RCB128RFA1 and
ATAVR128RFA1-EK1 with
ATSTK600 boards
BitCloud for
megaRF
XMEGA
®
ATxmega256A3 /
ATxmega256D3
+ AT86RF231
or
ATxmega256A3 /
ATxmega256D3
+ AT86RF212
or
ATxmega256A3 /
ATxmega256D3
+ AT86RF230
N/A
AT45DB041
(only 264-byte
pages)
ATxmega card hosted on
STK
®
600
and RZ600 radio
boards
ATREB212ED-EK
ATREB231ED-EK
ATREB232ED-EK
BitCloud for AVR
®
XMEGA
UC3
AT32UC3A0512
+ AT86RF231
N/A
N/A
EVK1105
BitCloud for AVR
UC3 32-bit MCUs
SAM3S
ATSAM3S4C
+ AT86RF231
or
ATSAM3S4C
+ AT86RF230
or
ATSAM3S4C
+ AT86RF212
N/A
N/A
SAM3S-EK and RZ600 radio
boards
Atmel RF212USB-RD
Atmel RF231USB-RD
BitCloud for
SAM3S-EK
