On 6/29/05, Kevin Olalde <kolalde@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if any exist?  I looked at the Chipcon part (CC2420)
> that MChip uses in their demo kit, but it's QLP-48.
> 
> Anyone know of a DIP part from someone else?  I saw you can buy just
> the RF daughter board from MChip ($40), but I was hoping to find just
> a chip.

Highly unlikely you will find an RF part in a DIP package.  First,
there is a lot of stray capacitance and inductance in the package at
2.4GHz and second, nobody would want to buy a bulky DIP RF chip.

I would buy the module from MChip (in fact I bought the whole demo
kit).  Other options include modules from Panasonic (available through
Arrow), Helicomm, LSResearch, Millenial Net, or a ZigBee demo board
from MChip or Freescale.  ICs are available from ChipCon, Ember,
Freescale, and ZMD.

I recently ordered some SchmartBoards (www.schmartboard.com), which
are prototyping boards and am impressed with the quality of the
product.  Even though the name isn't very professional sounding, there
boards are very nicely done.  You can probably get a board that would
hold the RFIC, but it is unlikely (IMHO) that you will get anything to
work going that route.

Bradley

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