[TriEmbed] wireless device

[Pete Soper]

Yes, WICED is available, but the WiFiMCU and Lua and other software 
pieces are being released with build environments predicated on the IAR 
toolchain (which itself is predicated on Windows). I'm testing the 
NodeMCU Lua environments (both for ESP8266 and EMW3165) while finishing 
a "survey of the literature" to do with C/C++ tool chains.

But,  as you say, the Broadcom WICED SDK environment is available. It's 
been patched for use with EMW3162 and 3165 
<http://www.emw3165.com/viewtopic.php?t=78> by Emil Fridriksson. 
Although, one only has to read the first "known limit" bullet item to 
appreciate how "pre-pre-P R E-alpha" this environment is! But so far 
this is the best environment I've found.

I find it interesting that Mxchip doesn't even mention the 3165 on the 
English version of their web site. (Google translate is incredible. For 
folks into this, here's a very interesting Russian EMW3165 site 
<http://esp8266.ru/>.)

Thanks for the pointer to your 3162 work. I'll read it with great interest.

And thanks to Robert for providing perspective. The gap between hobby 
and pro-oriented stuff and between vendor A and vendor B stuff can be 
pretty drastic, and it's very important for us to help each other 
separate the wheat from the chaff so folks don't think the sow's ear for 
$2 direct from a distant vendor is a silk purse.

But in my opinion it's all relative. I recently suffered a shock while 
reading the STM32F411 ARM chip's errata sheet (page 6 here) 
<http://www.st.com/web/en/resource/technical/document/errata_sheet/DM00137034.pdf>.  
Right, I'll just make sure that the 3165 I use has no firmware 
containing an ISR with a single instruction in it to avoid my floating 
point divides and square roots being randomly corrupted every 40th blue 
moon. Piece of cake! (In a former life I wrote compiler back ends that 
had to craft machine language output to steer around bugs in the 
National 32k and Motorola 88k microprocessors. I mention this to make it 
clear that there is no definite dividing line between "hardware bug" and 
"software bug".)

-Pete

On 12/30/2015 10:50 AM, jonjwolfe at anibit.com wrote:
> Slight correction on my part, I was thinking of the "EMW3162" not the 
> "EMW3165". That's what I get for trying to reply and google what I 
> can't remember all from my phone.

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