6.2.4 Summary

The following table summarizes the ATWINC15x0 socket API and shows its compatibility with BSD socket APIs.

Table 6-1. ATWINC15x0 Socket API Summary
BSD API	ATWINC15x0 API	ATWINC15x0 API Type	Server/Client	TCP/UDP	Brief
socket	socket	Synchronous	Both	Both	Creates a new socket.
connect	connect	Asynchronous	Client	TCP	Initializes a TCP connection request to a remote server.
bind	bind	Asynchronous	Server	Both	Binds a socket to an address (address/port).
listen	listen	Asynchronous	Server	TCP	Allows a bound socket to listen to remote connections for its local port.
accept	accept		Deprecated, Implicit accept in listen.
send	send	Asynchronous	Both	Both	Sends packet.
sendto	sendto	Asynchronous	Both	UDP	Sends packet over UDP sockets.
write	-	Not supported
recv	recv	Asynchronous	Both	Both	Receives packet.
recvfrom	recvfrom	Asynchronous	Both	Both	Receives packet.
read	-	Not supported
close	close	Synchronous	Both	Both	Terminates the TCP connection and release system resources.
gethostbyname	gethostbyname	Asynchronous	Both	Both	Gets the IP address of a certain host name
gethostbyaddr	-	Not supported
select	-	Not supported
poll	-	Not supported
setsockopt	setsockopt	Synchronous	Both	Both	Sets socket option.
getsockopt		Not supported
htons/ntohs	_htons/_ntohs	Synchronous	Both	Both	Converts 2 byte integer from the host representation to the Network byte order representation (and vice versa).
htonl/ntohl21	_htonl/_ntohl	Synchronous	Both	Both	Converts 4 byte integer from the host representation to the Network byte order representation (and vice versa).