Microchip Embedded Wi-Fi®
Microcip Embedded Wi-Fi® is a family of self-contained, low power and certified modules bringing wireless internet connectivity.
ATWILC1000 is IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ IOT link controller utilizing highly optimized 802.11 and provides mulitple peripheral interfaces like SPI, and SDIO.
ATWILC3000 is IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/BT4.0 IOT link controller utilizing highly optimized 802.11-Bluetooth coexistence protocol and provides mulitple peripheral interfaces like UART, SPI, and SDIO.
This is the unified driver source for wilc1000 & wilc3000 chipsets.
Refer to the Wi-Fi Link Controller Linux User Guide for information on how to use the wireless devices on linux and the Wi-Fi Link Controller Linux Release Notes for the latest release notes and revision history.
For more information on Microchip Embedded Wi-Fi®, visit Microchip Embedded Wi-Fi®.
ATWILC Features
The ATWILC module supports the following features.
- Wi-Fi Station (STA)
- IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
- Open, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)/WPA2 personal and WPA/WPA2 enterprise security
- Wi-Fi Access Point (AP)
- IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
- Open, WEP, WPA/WPA2 personal and WPA/WPA2 enterprise security
- Supports eight stations
- Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
- PBC
- PIN code
- Wi-Fi direct
- P2P Client
- P2P GO
- Concurrent modes
- STA-STA
- STA-AP
- STA-P2 Client
- STA-P2P GO
- AP-P2P Client
- Antenna diversity control for Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth (ATWILC3000 only)
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 4.0 support
- Modes of operation: Central and peripheral support
- Number of Connections: Supports seven clients
- Adaptive frequency hopping
- Coexistence with Wi-Fi
- Power save
- Beacon monitoring mode
- Low-power mode when disconnected
- Host suspend support
- Wake-up host on wireless LAN events
- RF version number 01.1 Note: RF version number format is xx.y, where xx: "Major" and y: "Minor". Changes in Major number requires re-tests and possibly re-certification.