CC3135 SimpleLink™ Dual-Band Wi-Fi® Wireless Network Processor

Texas Instruments' CC3135 is a dual-band wireless network processor that can connect any microcontroller (MCU) to the Internet of Things (IoT). The CC3135 Wi-Fi internet-on-a chip™ device contains an Arm Cortex-M3 MCU dedicated to Wi-Fi and internet protocols to offload networking activities from the host MCU. The subsystem includes a dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n radio, baseband, and MAC with a powerful crypto engine for fast, secure Internet connections with 256-bit encryption and built-in power management for best-in-class low-power performance. The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® CC3135 device dramatically simplifies the implementation of low-power, with the integrated Wi-Fi Alliance® IoT low-power feature.

The main features include 802.11a (5 GHz) support, BLE/2.4 GHz radio coexistence, antenna selection, enhanced security with FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certification, up to 16 concurrent secure sockets, certificate sign request (CSR), online certificate status protocol (OCSP), Wi-Fi Alliance certification for IoT applications with low-power capabilities, a hostless mode for offloading template packet transmissions, and improved fast scan.

The CC3135 device is delivered with a slim and user-friendly host driver to simplify the integration and development of networking applications. The host driver can easily be ported to most platforms and operating systems (OS). The driver has a small memory footprint and can run on 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit microcontrollers with any clock speed (no performance or real-time dependency). The CC3135 device is part of the SimpleLink MCU platform, a common, easy-to-use development environment based on a single core software development kit (SDK), rich tool set, reference designs, and E2E™ community which supports Wi-Fi, BLE, sub-1 GHz, and host MCUs.