Spinner Edge

Product Description

The Spinner Edge board is an Ethernet Development board for the Parallax P2 Edge and P2 Eval boards. The board is based on the Wiznet W6100.

Hardware

The W6100 is a hardwired Internet controller chip supporting IPv4/IPv6 dual stack by adding IPv6 functions on the basis of WIZnet’s patented hardwired TCP/IP core technology. W6100 supports TCP/IP protocols such as TCP, UDP, IPv6, IPv4, ICMPv6, ICMPv4, IGMP, ARP and PPPoE. W6100 also includes 10Base-T / 10Base-Te / 100Base-TX Ethernet PHY and Ethernet MAC Controller which makes it suitable for embedded internet-enabled devices.

W6100 has 8 independent hardwired SOCKETs and supports various SOCKET-less commands, which are for IPv6 auto-configuration, monitoring, and managing the network via ARP, PINGv4, and PINGv6.

W6100 supports two kinds of HOST interfaces; SPI and parallel system BUS. It has 32KB internal memory for sending and receiving data. Designed for low power and low heat, W6100 provides WOL (Wake On LAN), Ethernet PHY power down mode and etc.

Supported Parallax P2 boards:

Software

The driver for the Spinner Edge is available under the MIT License. It supports IPV4, inbound and outbound TCP and UDP sockets, DHCP Client, DNS, and HTTP. All of these protocols are available in SPIN2 and are supported under the Parallax Propeller Tool.

Currently IPV6, PPPoE, and IGMP is not supported by the Griswold FX driver for the Spinner Edge, however these features are supported by the Wiznet chip and may be added to the driver in the future. All hardware required for SPI mode is present in the Spinnder Edge.

The driver and example code can be found here:

GriswoldFX Spin2 driver (https://griswoldfx.visualstudio.com/Spinner%20Edge/_git/Software)

Rayman has provided a Propeller 2 port of the Official Wiznet Driver (https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/174977/wiznet-official-driver-working-flexc-now-with-w6100-support/p3)

The datasheet for the Wiznet 6100 can be found here:

Document | WIZnet Document System (https://docs.wiznet.io/Product/iEthernet/W6100/document)

Manual

Spinner Edge Operation Manual (griswoldfx.com)