Adding TCP/IP Ethernet to PIC - how?

[mackrackit]

mackrackit may convince you otherwise.

Nope, I am not stuck on one brand, from what you tell about Tibbo I will most likely try one for the next project.

[dhouston]

Nope, I am not stuck on one brand, from what you tell about Tibbo I will most likely try one for the next project.

Buy the evaluation board for your first one. Otherwise, you'll need to design a pcb due to the 2x11x0.050inch pinout.

If you refer back to my first mention of them in this thread, you might wonder what changed my mind.

I had 100 boards (designed to use their EM202) partially assembled and placed an order (with Crownhill) for 25 of the Tibbo modules only to learn, after a couple of weeks, that Tibbo would not allow dealers to sell them to the USA. I had earlier bough a handful from another dealer that I had used for prototyping. Shortly thereafter they discontinued it. The marketing gal in Taiwan that I communicated with promised a replacement in a few months. That stretched into about two years. Still, the EM500 has convinced me to forgive (but not forget) - it really is a neat design.

I suspect they ran into patent issues with the earlier design which was in a single package similar to the Lantronix XPort.