Wi-Fi HaLow Chip Targets European and Middle Eastern Markets
To further help expand IoT deployments in Europe and the Middle East, Morse Micro added the MM8102 to its Wi-Fi HaLow SoC family. A low-power variant of the company's MM8108, the MM8102 is available with 1- or 2-MHz bandwidth at 256-QAM modulation, enabling a throughput of up to 8.7 Mb/s.
Operating on the sub-GHz ISM bands, the SoC offers greater range and signal penetration than legacy 2.4-, 5-, and 6-GHz Wi-Fi networks, while meeting European and global regulatory requirements.
The MM8102, optimized for the EMEA marketplace, includes a 16-dBm EIRP with support for duty-cycle restrictions, and takes on battery-operated applications with ultra-low power consumption in sleep modes. With its burst throughput of 8.7 Mb/s at 2MHz bandwidth, it supports burst and average duty cycling to meet EU regulatory requirements. Average throughput reaches as high as 867 kb/s for access points at 10% duty cycle and 243 kB/s for IoT stations at 2.8% duty cycle.
Additional features of the 5- x 5-mm BGA packaged device include USB, SDIO, and SPI host integration with USB AP and STA dongle operation on new and existing network infrastructures. It supports WPA3 with Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) and GCMP encryption for robust link-layer protection.
