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Colorado Springs, Colo. - Freescale Semiconductor Inc. will port the core ZigBee protocol stack to the ColdFire control architecture as gateway applications in home automation and industrial control move to 32-bit control planes.
In the first applications, a two-chip solution will combine ColdFire, using medium-access control software, with a dedicated transceiver for the RF network. Later, system-on-chip applications will combine ColdFire cores with communications cores as well as peripheral and I/O modules.
As additional full ZigBee adjuncts to the base IEEE 802.15.4 protocols are released for Motorola's 8-bit controller lines, those will be added to the ColdFire suite as well. The ColdFire MCF5282, MCF5213 and MC5223x families are included in the current port.
Meanwhile, the current protocol stack software, based on technology from Figure 8 Software Inc., will be replaced with stacks developed at Freescale and called the...