Microcontroller for ENC28J60

Hi, I am considering using an ENC28J60 to provide ethernet access for my
project; however, I am required to build a separate board for my
microcontroller. Can you guys suggest a microcontroller which is easiest
(in terms of interfacing and coding) to use to drive the enc28j60? I
looked at PIC because they offer royalty-free tcp/ip stack code but I'm
not familiar with them I don't even know if a separate device is needed to
program it with a pc (icd2? is that a software or hardware?). I know how to
code Z8 encore!, its fairly straight forward to code (only needs rs232
connection) but I don't have the time to write the code for tcp/ip since
its not the focus of the project. Thanks!

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Can you guys suggest a microcontroller which is easiest
> (in terms of interfacing and coding) to use to drive the enc28j60? I
> looked at PIC because they offer royalty-free tcp/ip stack code but I'm
> not familiar with them I don't even know if a separate device is needed to
> program it with a pc (icd2? is that a software or hardware?).

I would go for PIC-s. TCP/IP stack is of good quality and low level 
interface is done for You. And You have a chance to get familiar with 
another architecture.
You need icd2 which is programer/serial debuger and a C compiler which You 
can buy or download a student time limited edition.
If You don't wanna buy icd2 You can use some of those home made programmers 
out there.

> Thanks!

No problemo :)

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:11:48 -0600, "sani_figs" <adrian_figui@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>program it with a pc (icd2? is that a software or hardware?). I know how to
>code Z8 encore!, its fairly straight forward to code (only needs rs232
>connection) but I don't have the time to write the code for tcp/ip since
>its not the focus of the project. Thanks!

If you know the low-end Zilogs, the Zilog ez80F91 should be easiest for you
to learn. A 10/100 Ethernet MAC is built-in into the processor, you'll have
to add a PHY. The ZTP stack has many protocols built-in - http, smtp, snmp,
ppp, ftp, ntp, dhcp, ... and is free.

Otherwise there are many people who have used the Microchip part with an AVR
controller. At the moment I only find two links.

http://home.arcor.de/fuenfundachtzig/me/me.htm (German,sorry)
http://www.tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200606/article06061.shtml


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> Hi, I am considering using an ENC28J60 to provide ethernet access for my
> project; however, I am required to build a separate board for my
> microcontroller. Can you guys suggest a microcontroller which is easiest
> (in terms of interfacing and coding) to use to drive the enc28j60? I
> looked at PIC because they offer royalty-free tcp/ip stack code but I'm
> not familiar with them I don't even know if a separate device is needed to
> program it with a pc (icd2? is that a software or hardware?). I know how 
> to
> code Z8 encore!, its fairly straight forward to code (only needs rs232
> connection) but I don't have the time to write the code for tcp/ip since
> its not the focus of the project. Thanks!

Royalty free TCP/IP written in C with English comments. Microcontroller 
indusstry standard Ethernet controller onboard. Ultra-popular AT89C51ED2 
controller. Cheap USD$79.00 What else do you want?

http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanluynm/Embedded_8051_TCPIP_Webserver.php

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>Hi, I am considering using an ENC28J60 to provide ethernet access for my
>project; however, I am required to build a separate board for my
>microcontroller. Can you guys suggest a microcontroller which is easiest
>(in terms of interfacing and coding) to use to drive the enc28j60? I
>looked at PIC because they offer royalty-free tcp/ip stack code but I'm
>not familiar with them I don't even know if a separate device is needed
to
>program it with a pc (icd2? is that a software or hardware?). I know how
to
>code Z8 encore!, its fairly straight forward to code (only needs rs232
>connection) but I don't have the time to write the code for tcp/ip since
>its not the focus of the project. Thanks!
>

Hi

I wanted to use the ENC28J60 also for the same reasons, also had to throw
in a micro so decided to rather go for the PIC18F97J60 which basically has
the silicon of the ENC28J60 integrated on chip. I works wonderfully.

Nico