Description
The Atmel® WINC1500 is a single chip IEEE® 802.11 b/g/n RF, IoT (Internet of Things) Network Controller SoC. The WINC1500 most advanced mode is a single stream 1x1 802.11n mode providing up to 72Mbps PHY throughput. The WINC1500 features fully integrated Power Amplifier, LNA, Switch and Power Management. Implemented in 65nm CMOS technology, the WINC1500 offers very low power consumption while simultaneously providing high performance and optimized bill of material.

FEATUREs
• IEEE 802.11 b/g/n RF/PH/MAC SOC
• IEEE 802.11 b/g/n (1x1) for up to 72Mbps
• Single spatial stream in 2.5Ghz RF band
• Integrated PA and T/R Switch
• Superior Sensitivity and Range via advanced PHY signal processing
• Wi-Fi Direct and Soft-AP support
• Supports IEEE 802.11 WEP, WPA, WPA2 Security
• On-chip memory management engine to reduce host load
• 4Mbit internal Flash memory for system software
• SPI, UART and I2C as host interfaces
• Power save modes:
   ̶ 3µA deep sleep mode
   ̶ 600µA standby mode (state is preserved)
   ̶ On-chip low power sleep oscillator
   ̶ Fast host wake-up by chip pin or clock-less transaction
• Fast boot options
   ̶ On-Chip Boot ROM (Firmware instant boot)
   ̶ SPI flash boot (firmware patches and state variables)
   ̶ Low-leakage on-chip memory for state variables (next chip revision)
   ̶ No SPI flash is needed if firmware patches and state variables can be loaded from MCU at boot time
   ̶ Fast AP Re-Association (150ms)
• On-Chip Network Stack to offload MCU
   ̶ Integrated Network IP stack to minimize host CPU requirements
   ̶ Network features TCP, UDP, DHCP, ARP, HTTP, SSL, and DNS
• TCP/IP protocol stack (client/server) sockets applications
• Wi-Fi security WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPS
• Advanced Equalization and Channel Estimation
• Advanced Carrier and Timing Synchronization
• Wi-Fi Direct and Soft-AP support
• Network protocols (DHCP/DNS)
• WSC (wireless simple configuration WPS)
• No OS small footprint host driver (4KB flash – less than 1KB RAM)