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GainSpan’s reference design codes provide easy Wi-Fi connectivity
Clive Maxfield9/3/2012 11:39 AM EDT
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GainSpan Corporation, a leader in low power embedded Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi connectivity for the Internet of Things, today announced the availability of Wi-Fi Reference Design Code for two additional families of microcontrollers (MCUs) – Atmel AVR and STMicroelectronics’ STM32 MCUs.
The new drivers make it easy to add Wi-Fi connectivity, allowing designers to reduce development time and bring quickly to market embedded systems based on these Atmel and STMicroelectronics’ MCUs.
The release of the new code adds to GainSpan’s portfolio of driver software in support of popular MCUs, from Freescale, Renesas, Texas Instruments, Microchip and now STMicroelectronics and Atmel.
With the new drivers, customers can easily use Atmel AVR and STM32-based products to communicate with any GainSpan Wi-Fi module through a serial interface. The modules offer advanced networking features and capabilities not readily available with other Wi-Fi modules including enterprise security, embedded DHCP, DNS and HTTP (S) servers, XML parser, discovery and more.
The code is easily portable to other host microcontrollers. The Application code includes TCP, UDP and HTTP traffic to support multiple concurrent sockets, and AP functionality. With its small memory
footprint, the new reference code can run on the most memory constrained MCUs. Even when including the drivers, UDP, TCP and multiple sockets, it uses less than 8 Kbytes of flash and 2 Kbytes of RAM, and can be used with the IAR Embedded Workbench Kickstart Edition.
“With the explosion of the Internet of Things, a wide variety of low-power MCUs are now being used as the engines for embedded devices,” said Bernard Aboussouan, vice president of marketing, GainSpan. “Although we have close relationships and tighter solution integration with selected MCU vendors, we support our customers in their choice of popular MCUs.”
Availability
The new Atmel AVR and STM32 reference design code is available now and can be downloaded from GainSpan’s Website. Customers can choose host interfaces, security, provisioning methods, for their embedded devices, without the need of an expensive compiler, using the SDK-Builder.
If you found this article to be interest, visit Microcontroller / MCU Designline where – in addition to my Max's Cool Beans blogs on all sorts of "stuff" – you will find the latest and greatest design, technology, product, and news articles with regard to all aspects of designing and using microcontrollers.
Also, you can obtain a highlights update delivered directly to your inbox by signing up for my weekly newsletter – just Click Here to request this newsletter using the Manage Newsletters tab (if you aren't already a member you'll be asked to register, but it's free and painless so don't let that stop you [grin]).
Last but certainly not least, make sure you check out all of the discussions and other information resources at All Programmable Planet. For example, in addition to blogs by yours truly, microcontroller expert Duane Benson is learning how to use FPGAs to augment (sometimes replace) the MCUs in his robot (and other) projects.
The new drivers make it easy to add Wi-Fi connectivity, allowing designers to reduce development time and bring quickly to market embedded systems based on these Atmel and STMicroelectronics’ MCUs.
The release of the new code adds to GainSpan’s portfolio of driver software in support of popular MCUs, from Freescale, Renesas, Texas Instruments, Microchip and now STMicroelectronics and Atmel.
With the new drivers, customers can easily use Atmel AVR and STM32-based products to communicate with any GainSpan Wi-Fi module through a serial interface. The modules offer advanced networking features and capabilities not readily available with other Wi-Fi modules including enterprise security, embedded DHCP, DNS and HTTP (S) servers, XML parser, discovery and more.
The code is easily portable to other host microcontrollers. The Application code includes TCP, UDP and HTTP traffic to support multiple concurrent sockets, and AP functionality. With its small memory
footprint, the new reference code can run on the most memory constrained MCUs. Even when including the drivers, UDP, TCP and multiple sockets, it uses less than 8 Kbytes of flash and 2 Kbytes of RAM, and can be used with the IAR Embedded Workbench Kickstart Edition.
“With the explosion of the Internet of Things, a wide variety of low-power MCUs are now being used as the engines for embedded devices,” said Bernard Aboussouan, vice president of marketing, GainSpan. “Although we have close relationships and tighter solution integration with selected MCU vendors, we support our customers in their choice of popular MCUs.”
Availability
The new Atmel AVR and STM32 reference design code is available now and can be downloaded from GainSpan’s Website. Customers can choose host interfaces, security, provisioning methods, for their embedded devices, without the need of an expensive compiler, using the SDK-Builder.
If you found this article to be interest, visit Microcontroller / MCU Designline where – in addition to my Max's Cool Beans blogs on all sorts of "stuff" – you will find the latest and greatest design, technology, product, and news articles with regard to all aspects of designing and using microcontrollers.
Also, you can obtain a highlights update delivered directly to your inbox by signing up for my weekly newsletter – just Click Here to request this newsletter using the Manage Newsletters tab (if you aren't already a member you'll be asked to register, but it's free and painless so don't let that stop you [grin]).
Last but certainly not least, make sure you check out all of the discussions and other information resources at All Programmable Planet. For example, in addition to blogs by yours truly, microcontroller expert Duane Benson is learning how to use FPGAs to augment (sometimes replace) the MCUs in his robot (and other) projects.
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