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? IEEE 802.11 b/g/n RF/PH/MAC SOC
? IEEE 802.11 b/g/n (1×1) for up to 72Mbps
? Single spatial stream in 2.5Ghz RF band
? Integrated PA and T/R Switch
? Superior Sensitivity and Range via advanced PHY signal processing ? Wi-Fi Direct and Soft-AP support
? Supports IEEE 802.11 WEP, WPA, WPA2 Security
? On-chip memory management engine to reduce host load
? 4Mbit internal Flash memory for system software
? SPI, UART and I2C as host interfaces
? Power save modes
? 3?A deep sleep mode
? 600?A standby mode (state is preserved)
? On-chip low power sleep oscillator
? Fast host wake-up by chip pin or clock-less transaction
? Fast boot options
? On-Chip Boot ROM (Firmware instant boot)
? SPI flash boot (firmware patches and state variables)
? Low-leakage on-chip memory for state variables (next chip revision)
? No SPI flash is needed if firmware patches and state variables can be loaded from MCU at boot time
? Fast AP Re-Association (150ms)
? On-Chip Network Stack to offload MCU
? Integrated Network IP stack to minimize host CPU requirements
? Network features TCP, UDP, DHCP, ARP, HTTP, SSL, and DNS
? TCP/IP protocol stack (client/server) sockets applications
? Wi-Fi security WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPS
? Advanced Equalization and Channel Estimation
? Advanced Carrier and Timing Synchronization
? Wi-Fi Direct and Soft-AP support
? Network protocols (DHCP/DNS)
? WSC (wireless simple configuration WPS)
? No OS small footprint host driver (4KB flash – less than 1KB RAM)