Features
- IEEE® 802.11 b/g/n 20 MHz (1x1) solution
- Single spatial stream in 2.4 GHz ISM band
- Integrated Transmit/Receive switch
- Integrated PCB antenna or U.FL micro co-ax connector for external antenna
- Superior sensitivity and range via advanced PHY signal processing
- Advanced equalization and channel estimation
- Advanced carrier and timing synchronization
- Wi-Fi® Direct (supported till firmware release 19.5.2)
- Soft-AP support
- Supports IEEE 802.11 WEP, WPA, WPA2 security
- Support Enterprise security with
WPA/WPA2 (802.1X)(1)
- EAP-TLS
- EAP-PEAPv0/1 with TLS
- EAP-TTLSv0 with MSCHAPv2
- EAP-PEAPv0/1 with MSCHAPv2
- Superior MAC throughput via hardware accelerated two-level A-MSDU/A-MPDU frame aggregation and block acknowledgment
- On-chip memory management engine to reduce host load
- SPI host interface
- Operating temperature range from -40°C to +85°C. RF performance at room temperature of 25oC with a 2-3 dB change at boundary conditions
- Power supply for I/O (VDDIO) rages from 2.7V to 3.6V
- Power supply for DC/DC converter (VBAT) ranges from 3.0V to 4.2V
- Built-in 26 MHz crystal
- Integrated Flash memory for system software
- Power Save modes
- 4 µA Power-Down mode typical at 3.3V I/O
- 380 µA Doze mode with chip settings preserved (used for beacon monitoring) (2)
- On-chip low power sleep oscillator
- Fast host wake-up from Doze mode by a pin or SPI transaction
- Fast Boot options
- On-chip boot ROM (Firmware instant boot)
- SPI flash boot
- Low-leakage on-chip memory for state variables
- Fast AP re-association (150 ms)
- On-chip Network stack to offload MCU
- Network features TCP, UDP, DHCP, ARP, HTTP, TLS and DNS
- Hardware accelerators for Wi-Fi and TLS security to improve connection time
- Hardware accelerator for IP checksum
- Hardware accelerators for OTA security
- Small footprint host driver
- Wi-Fi Alliance® certifications for
Connectivity and Optimizations
- ID: WFA61069
Note:
- For more information on the software features, refer to the Wi-Fi Network Controller Software Design Guide at ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/00002389A.pdf.
- For more information on the module power modes, refer to Power Consumption.