14.2.1.1 Introduction

Microchip Zigbee Stack, widely known as BitCloud is a full-featured, next generation embedded software stack.

The stack provides a software development platform for reliable and scalable wireless applications running on microchip microcontrollers and radio transceivers. It is designed to support a broad ecosystem of user-designed applications addressing diverse requirements and enabling a full spectrum of software customization.

BitCloud is fully compliant with Zigbee PRO and Zigbee standards for wireless sensing and control. It provides an augmented set of APIs which, while maintaining 100% compliance with the standard, offer extended functionality designed with developer's convenience and ease-of-use in mind.

BitCloud's target audience is system designers, embedded programmers and hardware engineers evaluating, prototyping, and deploying wireless solutions and products built on on the Microchip hardware platform. The stack is available as part of the MPLAB H3 framwork with following inclusions

  • Documentation
  • Zigbee stack libraray comprising multiple components of the stack
  • System resources/middleware as source code to develop Zigbee 3.0 application device types
  • A limited set of peripheral drivers for PIC32CXBZ apart from peripheral driver libraries provided by MPLAB H3 framework