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| ulix:
Hi Everyone, I’m planning to transfer some data captured with an MSP430 MCU via LAN. Does anyone have any recommendations for modules to get started with LAN communication? I’ve seen a lot of ENC28J60 modules on AliExpress, but it seems that this chip is quite unreliable and buggy. Do any forum members have other or better recommendations? Thanks a lot! |
| Siwastaja:
Wiznet (W5500, W6100) is The Easy Way and pretty good. Additionally to Ethernet MAC+PHY, it integrates TCP, IP, UDP and ARP on-chip, you need software implementations for DHCP and DNS if you need them, but they do have (seriously buggy, of course, but that's part of the deal) examples you can use. Time-to-product was not too bad, and probably easier than trying to integrate lwip for example. Compared to that, ENC28J60 only is MAC/PHY, so you need full TCP/IP software implementation if you want that. What protocols are you expecting to use? |
| coppice:
Is the chip really buggy, or is there just a lot of buggy software trying to use it? I have no experience with this part, but I do have a lot of experience of people complaining about buggy hardware in the MCU world that is actually a buggy software problem. That said, there are plenty of real hardware bugs in the MCU world that never get fixed. |
| nctnico:
I strongly second the suggestion for the W5500 or W6100 (the latter also supporting IPv6). Life just doesn't get any easier. The ENC28J60 supports 10Mbit only which might not even be supported by switches in the very near future. 100Mbit/s is also deemed obsolete and not all ethernet equipment supports 100Mbit/s these days, let alone 10Mbit/s. |
| phil from seattle:
Another vote for the W5500. You can get complete modules that run off of SPI and a couple of extra pins. WIZ820io is a nice compact version that I have used a number of times. $5 or less from China. $8ish on Amazon in the US. Probably similar in the EU. |
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