If I buy a transceiver module with CC2530 like this one and a programmer for it like this one is there any readily available firmware for the chip or will I have to write the firmware myself?
If available is it free or do I have to buy it from TI or a 3rd party?
Electronic – Zigbee firmware for CC2530 chips
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Best Answer
There is FW available for free. You should download TI's zstack-home from here: http://www.ti.com/tool/z-stack
you the have a few options:
Use IAR (this will meaning buying a license) to write a ZigBee application on the CC2530. Example Applications for the following are supplied in zstack-home SDK:
Load the pre-built network procesor FW (no need for IAR), provided in \Projects\zstack\ZAP\ZNP-HexFiles (described in Z-Stack Home 1.2.1\Documents\API\CC2530\CC2530ZNP Interface Specification.pdf). Then connect a host MCU to the UART of the CC2530 and use the open source "Host Sw Framework" available at https://git.ti.com/znp-host-framework/znp-host-framework to control the CC2530 Netork processor.
Regards, TC.