RF PICs and kits made of RF PICs

You can buy this from www.jameco.com as well. Microchip's website is not the most informative. You might look for user groups online that specialize in PIC programming.

Getting the price of individual PIC's is not very difficult but any attempts to get the price of the development boards will tell you to contact a sales rep. This tends to put the web page in a loop and you don't get anywhere. I figure that I need an explorer 16 board and a PIC-2 programmer/debugger but I can't for the life of me find out how much the combination will cost me.

DV164102 RFPICKIT DEVELOPMENT KIT 1
$218.55, in stock at Jameco.

Am I mising something here?

Also at Digikey.

RFPIC12C509AG-I/SO in stock at Mouser.

bhankii, jameco not selling rfpics,

and the curious one, do u know the email number i should send an email to ask or phone number?

You have to realize a couple of things:

1st., Large companies don't like to sell to the indidivual, they like to sell to other companies.

2nd., They usually like to sell in large quanities and not just one or two pieces.

3rd., Sales reps don't pay attention to students and indidivuals becuase there is no motivation for them; no high volume sales.

4th., RF, especially RFID is extremely hot market right now. It is almost impossible to get your hands on a few chips unless you buy their development kits.

After looking on Microchip's site for their RFPIC chips rfPIC12F675 and rfRXD0420/0920, the kit seems like a reasonable investiment. 1st., becuase the 12F675 looks like it has been discontinued and replaced with the RXD0420/0920, which is hybrid chip with a PIC microcontroller and the receiver (RX) components in one small package.

While it might be nice to buy the chips sperate from the kit, you are going to save a lot of time in developing the receiver circuit if you buy the kit, which has everything you need, including the developed circuits and software. Not bad for $135 US considering what you get. Some development kits for other RF chips are over $10,000.

I found the answer to my problem navigating around the michrochip web site. If I used Internet Explorere everything works well.

Actually some of the big name companies are very supportive of the small volume users and will even provide samples to students, hobbyists and Ham radio operators.

I appreciate companies like Jameco who have no minimum order quantities for orders placed over the Web.

Use the Internet Explorer as your Browser, register with Microchip Direct, and you should be able to order just about anything they have.

Good luck.

PS the MPLAB IDE is quite a deal for a freebie, it includes assemblers and C compilers of the entire product line an assortment of development tools and the ability to simulate the chips if you don't have one using a scripting facility. It is quite a deal.

you can easily recive such reciver in any city just ask for trans reciver you get it price app 800INR to 5000INR

While Microchip Direct, Digikey, and Mouser allow to purchase a few pieces over the net, it has not been good experience trying to order a Chipcon RFID chip as a student developing a Senior project. After placing a order for the chip with Mouser in May of last year, I finally called in in October to cancel the order becuase of repeated delays and backorders. All the high volume consumers were getting the chips, leaving none for the students or hobbists.

In effort to get my hands on something, I called several sales reps at national vendors, which never returned my calls. I finally cornered a receptionist at one of the comapnies to inquire about one of the kits, but they insisted I order two of them to meet minimum purchase requirments, something I simply could not afford as a student.

In the end, I settled for a local OEM manfacturer (Intersoft) using a different RFID chip to complete my project...a project lifesaver!

I've had pretty good success with just asking for samples. You are in developement of something and that is what samples are for. I've either just phoned or emailed resellers (who do a pretty good job of ignoring until I say something technical about what I'm doing and they realize it's not a 'complete' waste of their time) or I've just gone to sample.microchip.com and ordered there where 3-4 days wait gets me up to three items of about anything. Unfortunately the rfpics are not available for sampling. so you might have to go to a reseller and see what they can do.