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The 2.4-GHz band is used by many wireless communication standards and proprietary wireless implementations. When two different entities use the same wireless band in close proximity, it is crucial to have some coexistence mechanism to avoid significant degradation in performance. The BLE coexistence mechanism simplifies the effort of designing a product that uses two 2.4-GHz wireless technologies on the same board. The coexistence mechanism is supported on CC313x and CC323x devices only. Although the mechanism is designed to effortlessly implement coexistence with any BLE / 2.4-Ghz radio capable of delimiting its RF activity with a GPIO, the assumption and the design considers the BLE as a typical radio that might coexist with Wi-Fi device. BLE and WLAN operate on the same frequencies and disturb each other’s transmissions and receptions with no inherent way to avoid it. WLAN, however, is more inherently tolerant to time-domain disturbances. With this in mind, the co-existence mechanism gives priority to the BLE entity over the WLAN, as the WLAN can often delay its transmission or miss a reception without having any major noticeable effect apparent to the user (to some extent). When configured, the coexistence mechanism works in transparent way to the host. For more information, technical details, and guidelines on this feature, see the Application Note.