Sharing all my experiences with this 10$ WiFi chip with 120mhz. Compiled with GNU GCC
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First the EMW3162, if you didn't heard of it here is some info about it:
The EMW3162 is an WiFi chip by mxchip, combined with an STM32F205RG on a small board.
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/EMW3162-WiFi-Module-p-2122.html
Please visit:
https://github.com/MXCHIP-EMW/WICED-for-EMW
PLEASE VISIT:
https://github.com/MXCHIP-EMW/WICED-for-EMW
A couple of months back i bought a EMW3162 and an Buspirate.
Downloaded all the stuff from microchip, and found out that you need a KEIL compiler. I dont have one :(, tried to download it via shady ways no luck again ;(
Then I thought I could compile the binary blobs delivered from microchip with GCC, ofcourse no luck.
I even tweaked some of the sources inside GCC to make it compatible with the wchar size. Filled in the undefined references which should be linked via KEIL. But still no luck :( and many hours of waste.
As you can see in the pictures, my setup wasnt really stable..... So I decided to buy an EMB-380 development board, and JLINK programmer, and an extra EMW3162. But still I had no working software....
Somewhere in the comment sections of seedstudio someone suggest the WICED SDK and I should remap some transmit PINS, after comparing the MICO sources with WICED SDK I found which pins to remap.
Recompiled the WICED_SDK and reflashed everything with the J-LINK, and boom the EMW3162 was working as AP, serving ip addresses and a small webserver.
I did flashed it a couple of times via the buspirate, but this was very hard. The missing NJRST is a big problem. Just buy a JLINK via china for +/- 15$
Then I started to split up the original build process to separate libraries. So I can compile my projects against the libraries created via the WICED build.
Please visit:
https://github.com/MXCHIP-EMW/WICED-for-EMW
I just received the development kit and a couple modules. I put a module on the board and I'm trying to debug why it's not working. When is the LED on the development board supposed to light up? So far I'm not getting any LED blinking and when I try to program over the J-Link interface using OpenOCD, it says that the VREF is too low, check target power. I've got it plugged in through the USB port. Is there anything else I need to do to it?
I've order the WICED version of the development board off Amazon to see if that's the issue so I don't have to wait for shipping from China.
Looks like I may have received a defective one as it appears there's a short somewhere in it.
Well, silly me (and silly them). There's a power switch in the upper left corner of it. They don't have it labeled well (it just says SW5 under it) or pointing up and nice and visible like the other switches. Hopefully that helps anyone else who gets one and wonders why it isn't working.
Hi Willem et al,
First off, thanks for all your work. You're way ahead of me on getting this thing to work. I'm trying to stick with a straight WICED setup, but your port has helped me at least get it building.
I was disappointed when I realized the EMW3162 had those blasted 2.00mm pitch headers. (Ordinarily, I love SI units, 2.54mm is still SI, right? ;) )
Anyways, I threw together an adapter PCB for using the device on Breadboards or with standard headers. I posted about it on my blog
http://www.bytecruft.com/2015/04/prototyping-with-emw3162-iot-devices.html
You can get the adapter blank PCB here:
https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/PtnAlH2K
Since I run a small Maker business, if I have the resources to spare, I might look into doing a run of Kits for the adapter with PCB+needed headers.
I will keep a eye on this.
The ESP8266 dissapoints in a few areas. Once this runs with GCC I will give it a good try.
Few things that make ESP8266 quite annoying for me right now is Non-Opensource, No IPv6, genrally limited IP stack and pretty much no documentation on their weird hybrid WLAN modes.
It runs with GCC, the original WICED sdk has support for windows. The spinoff that exports the libraries I didnt tried it with yet (dont have windows)
I found references to SSL and TLS in code, but I didnt try it yet.
Willem Wouters
zacnotes
Chaz
Jared
Casual Cyborg
The instructions here point to a dead link. The project has moved to https://github.com/MXCHIP-EMW/WICED-for-EMW