Oki’s ML7065 is a single chip IEEE802.15.4, ZigBee ready, integrated 2.4 GHz radio (PHY) and Media Access Control (MAC) layer device. Oki’s ML7065 includes the complete 802.15.4 MAC which reduces the requirements on the network/application processor, leaving more bandwidth for other functions or allowing smaller and lower cost MCUs to be utilized. Additionally by implementing IEEE 802.15.4 at 2.4GHz, products which include the ML7065 in their design, can be used worldwide. This device has been specifically designed for applications, such as medical equipment, patient monitoring devices, industrial automation, sensor networks and remote controls for digital home entertainment and environmental systems.

Representing an open global standard, IEEE 802.15.4 which specifies the PHY and MAC layers has been adopted by the ZigBee™ Alliance (www.zigbee.org) to construct high-level data link and network layers tailored to the design of wirelessly networked devices. An early participant in the ZigBee Alliance, Oki’s ML7065’s PHY and MAC single-chip architecture assures future smooth transition to ZigBee multi-vendor interoperable products.

To aid in evaluation and design-in of the ML7065, Oki introduced the Oki ZigBee Developers Kit (ZDK) this summer. The ZDK is specifically tuned to give developers a platform which enables small size, battery optimized functionality and feature rich set of peripherals to allow various user scenarios to be implemented.