WIZ what? Understanding WizNet W5500 for Your CNC Projects
THere seems to be a lot of confusion (and range of prices) surrounding the WizNet W5500 based Ethernet module we use for the RP23CNC. Hopefully this will help clear some of that up. When WizNet introduced the W5500 networking chip, they also introduced an evaluation module, the Wiz550io. It was rather large and had an odd arrangement of pins - 6 on one side and 8 on the other. But it was popular because it allowed adding Ethernet to a design via SPI, and the designer didn't
