ENC624J600 Ethernet Controller

hockeyjo14 · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 2 Location: C_bus, Ohio

Has anyone had an opportunity to try the new Microchip ENC624J600 10/100 Base T Ethernet controller? It interfaces to the micro via the SPI, similar to the ENC28J60. Will the CCS stack work with the ENC624J600?

I have not used the ENC624J600 or ENC28J60 yet, however I have a requirement to add an Ethernet controller to a new design and wanted to use the best controller. It looks as if the ENC624J600 uses only 100mA instead of the 200mA used by the ENC28J60. Initially I will only need the 10base T. Another application I am looking at could use the 100 baseT. I plan on using PIC24F256GB110. Thanks.

asmallri · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 1635 Location: Perth, Australia

I have used this controller. It is as power hungry as the ENC28J60 for 10M operation.

There are two variants, the ENC424J600 and the ENC624J600 both support SPI mode and both support parallel mode with the 624 supporting 16 bit wide transfers. My testing indicates there is no real value in the 16 bit transfers as there are multiple operations that require 8 bit operation.

I have not used the controller with the CCS or Microchip stacks however I did port the low level driver to my own stack. I have used this controller with PIC24, dsPIC and PIC32 microcontrollers.
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