Small footprint, 802.11 a/b/g/n WLAN solution for small embedded devices with basic RTOS

Comes with WLAN infrastructure – no need for RTOS to support WLAN

Reference design with Broadcom 802.11 b/g/n SDIO WLAN chipset

Basic Features:

• Fully Compliant with IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n standards
• Small driver and firmware footprint. Driver - 200k, Firmware - 250k
• Supports Linux Wireless Extensions API to interface with supplicants. Supplicant is an optional feature available.
• Supports both SDIO and SPI bus operations. Can easily add support for USB.
• Supports both STA (Station) and AP (Access Point) modes
• Exposes a standard Ethernet interface to the OS. No WLAN infrastructure required.
• Firmware support on all low-level WLAN management and packet manipulation offloading th main CPU.
• Support Throughput of up-to 70Mb/s in 802.11n mode.

Security Features:

• WEP, WEP2, WPA, WPA2(Personal), 802.1X, TKIP and AES hardware acceleration 802.11i
• EAP (802.1x RADIUS Server) Authentication with external agent.

Reference platform

• ST Micro STM3210C-EVAL board http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/um/15082.pdf

• eCos RTOS with TCP/IP stack
• WLAN chipset BCM 4329 b/g/n – can support a/b/gn 2.4G/5G based on the specific model.
• Reference platform capabilities

* HW + eCos supports: Ethernet, Serial, SDIO

* Serial, SDIO, SPI CAN, IrDA, USB, Smartcard, Serial Flash

* Audio, Motor control and Temperature sensor