WILINK8-WIFI-NLCP

WiLink™ 8 Wi-Fi Driver for Linux OS

WILINK8-WIFI-NLCP

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Overview

WiLink™ 8 NLCP package consists of build scripts to update WiLink™ 8 Linux driver, firmware binary, wpa supplicant, hostapd etc. For more details please refer to the release notes and user’s guide

Software block overview:

WL18xx Linux driver uses the open source components along with the interface driver for the device to realize Wi-Fi functionalities. Listing few NLCP driver package components below:

  • WiLink 8 FW: The FW runs on the device HW to provide the PHY and MAC functionality of the Wi-Fi. The host communicates via SDIO to the WLAN device. On the device side, the WLAN MAC is responsible for the 802.11 MAC functions, and conveys WLAN packets from/to the external host to/from the FW. The MAC is responsible for the timing and the time critical decisions only. The PHY performs the 802.11 PHY functions of encoding/decoding and modulation/ demodulation, and is responsible for the RF functions of up/down modulation to carrier frequency, filtering and amplification.
  • WiLink 8 Driver: It is an abstraction layer to the device HW and FW. Implements low level operations required to support the MAC driver.
    • wlcore:  Implements the low level driver for WiLink™ 8 devices, supporting mac80211 operations. Contains the common functions for all supported WiLink™ 8 chipsets.
    • Wl18xx: Implement chip specific functions and services. Supports the wlcore by implementing HW-specific functions.
    • wlcore_sdio:  Adaptation layer between the SDIO driver and the WiLink™ 8 driver.
  • MAC Driver:  It implements layer-2 Wi-Fi protocol requirements (data and control path). This is a generic component, not platform/device specific. This layer consists of the following components.
    • nl80211: Implements a net-link interface between user-space and kernel space components of the Linux Wireless solution.
    • cfg80211: The Linux wireless configuration API. (This is the lowest layer that is common for both soft-MAC and hard-MAC).
    • mac80211: The Linux kernel module implementing MAC-layer functions for Wi-Fi Soft-MAC solution.
  • Hostap package: Contains open-source user-space package (BSD license). Provides the upper-management layers for all WLAN roles (STA, AP, P2P and Mesh). Generates 2 daemons: wpa_supplicant (STA, P2P, Mesh), and hostapd (AP).
  • Utilities: provide initialization and configuration services. Implement debug and statistics capabilities
Features
  • Linux open-source Wi-Fi package.
  • TI NLCP releases are Wi-Fi Alliance pre-certified.
  • IEEE: 802.11 a,b,g,n, 2X2 MIMO @ 2.4 GHz and antenna diversity @ 5 GHz
  • Supported Modes: STA, AP, P2P, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Mesh
  • Up to 100 Mbps UDP throughput
  • Security: WPA3, WMM-PS, WMM-AC, WPA/2PSK, Ent,WPS,WPSv2
  • Low power support: Station WoW & Suspend/Resume , AP ELP (800 μA idle connect)
  • Co-existence with other 2.4 GHz protocol: BT/BLE and TI ZigBee at 2.4 GHz
  • AP DFS, radar detection at 5 GHz
  • Multi Role Multi Channel: concurrent operation of 2 WLAN roles on a single device.
  • Wi-Fi over mesh support: open 802.11s
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WILINK8-WIFI-NLCP WiLink8 NLCP Wi-Fi driver package for Linux OS

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Supported products & hardware

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Wi-Fi products
WL1801 WiLink™8 single-band industrial Wi-Fi® transceiver WL1801MOD WiLink™ 8 single band Wi-Fi® module WL1805MOD WiLink™ 8 single band, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi® module WL1807MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial dual band combo, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi module WL1831 WiLink™8 single-band industrial Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® and Bluetooth Low Energy transceiver WL1831MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & Bluetooth Smart (Low energy) module WL1835MOD WiLink™ 8 single band combo 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® & Bluetooth Smart module WL1837MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial dual band, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® & Bluetooth Smart module
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WILINK8-WIFI-NLCP WiLink8 NLCP Wi-Fi driver package for Linux OS

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Latest version
Version: R8.8
Release date: 08 Oct 2020

Link to WiLink™ 8 Solutions Overview

Link to the Getting Started User's Guide

Link to the Wilink8 Calibrator Tool User's Guide

Products
Wi-Fi products
WL1801 WiLink™8 single-band industrial Wi-Fi® transceiver WL1801MOD WiLink™ 8 single band Wi-Fi® module WL1805MOD WiLink™ 8 single band, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi® module WL1807MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial dual band combo, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi module WL1831 WiLink™8 single-band industrial Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® and Bluetooth Low Energy transceiver WL1831MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & Bluetooth Smart (Low energy) module WL1835MOD WiLink™ 8 single band combo 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® & Bluetooth Smart module WL1837MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial dual band, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® & Bluetooth Smart module

Documentation

Link to R8.8 Release Notes

Software Manifest of components inside the release

Release Information

This page contains specific information about WL18xx WLAN IP R8.8 software release package. The information in this page and reference is targeted to cover the feature content, build instructions, and prebuilt images for quick start.
Driver or library

WILINK8-WIFI-WTS WiLink™ 8 Wi-Fi Test Suite (WTS) Tool

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Supported products & hardware

Supported products & hardware

Wi-Fi products
WL1801 WiLink™8 single-band industrial Wi-Fi® transceiver WL1801MOD WiLink™ 8 single band Wi-Fi® module WL1805MOD WiLink™ 8 single band, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi® module WL1807MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial dual band combo, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi module WL1831 WiLink™8 single-band industrial Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® and Bluetooth Low Energy transceiver WL1831MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & Bluetooth Smart (Low energy) module WL1835MOD WiLink™ 8 single band combo 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® & Bluetooth Smart module WL1837MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial dual band, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® & Bluetooth Smart module

WILINK8-WIFI-WTS WiLink™ 8 Wi-Fi Test Suite (WTS) Tool

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Wi-Fi products
WL1801 WiLink™8 single-band industrial Wi-Fi® transceiver WL1801MOD WiLink™ 8 single band Wi-Fi® module WL1805MOD WiLink™ 8 single band, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi® module WL1807MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial dual band combo, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi module WL1831 WiLink™8 single-band industrial Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® and Bluetooth Low Energy transceiver WL1831MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & Bluetooth Smart (Low energy) module WL1835MOD WiLink™ 8 single band combo 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® & Bluetooth Smart module WL1837MOD WiLink™ 8 industrial dual band, 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® & Bluetooth Smart module

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Application note Certification Testing Guidelines for WFA System Interoperability Test Plans NLCP 28 Dec 2016
User guide WiLinkT™ 8 WLAN Features User's Guide (Rev. A) PDF | HTML 26 May 2016
Application note Certification Testing Guidelines for WFA System Interoperability Test Plans 15 Feb 2016
Application note Precise Time Synchronization Over WLAN (Rev. A) 18 Dec 2015
Application note WiLink 8 Solutions WiLink8 - wlconf Manual 01 Jul 2015
Application note WL18xx 5GHZ Antenna Diversity 29 Jun 2015

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