Jennic has announced that its chips, modules, stacks and development kits now form part of a ZigBee compliant platform.The company's products were tested by TÜV Rheinland Group and have been considered ready for use out of the box by developers building products for wireless sensor networks based on the ZigBee standard. Compliance signifies that Jennic's products meet the ZigBee specification, giving developers the confidence that the products they are using can co-exist with other products on the wireless network. Once developers have incorporated a ZigBee compliant platform into their designs, they can then apply for certification of their own products to ensure interoperability with products from other manufacturers.

Within Jennic's ZigBee compliant platform is the JN5121 wireless microcontroller and the software stack. The JN5121 is a integrated IEEE802.15.4 compliant device combining on-chip 32-bit RISC core, fully compliant 2.4GHz IEEE802.15.4 transceiver, 64Kb ROM and 96Kb of RAM, and a range of peripherals enabling a solution for wireless sensor networking applications. The developer kit using this controller and stack was recently made available from Jennic's web site along with full network stack and associated support documentation and user guides.