SoC delivers next generation Wi-Fi performance for IoT applications

Mouser Electronics, Inc. now offers the new MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow SoC from Morse Micro. The SoC is a HaLow-compliant connectivity solution tailored to meet the needs of IoT and M2M applications.

The SoC is a highly integrated, ultra-low-power, single-chip Wi-Fi solution offering improved performance in all key areas, including range, throughput, and power efficiency, while also reducing the cost, effort, and time required to bring the next generation of Wi-Fi HaLow-enabled products to market. Wi-Fi HaLow is the first Wi-Fi standard tailored to meet the needs of IoT applications, and the SoC delivers over-the-air data rates up to 43.33Mbps at 8MHz bandwidth in worldwide sub-GHz license-exempt bands, with next-generation upgrades boasting 16x better efficiency than standard Wi-Fi. The SoC adds an integrated high-efficiency power amplifier (PA) and high-linearity LNA that meet the IEEE 802.11ah standard, while integrating full MAC and PHY implementations. The SoC's RF interface can also be configured with an external PCB-mount PA or FEM for ultra-long-reach applications with leading Wi-Fi HaLow security features (WPA3, SAE, GCMP) to ensure link-layer communications start and remain protected.

The company also stocks several evaluation kits for the MM8108 SoC. The Morse Micro MM8108-EKH01-01 kits offer a prototyping platform based on the Raspberry Pi 4B. These fully enclosed kits provide out-of-the-box Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity for low-power, long-range wireless IoT applications. The MM8108-EKH05-01 evaluation kit is a fully integrated development platform for a wide range of IoT applications featuring an MM8108 SoC, an STM32U585 low-power MCU, and a BlueNRG-M2 Bluetooth SoC. The MM8108-EKH19 kit features a USB 2.0 network adapter reference design based on the MM8108 SoC, an SMA Wi-Fi HaLow antenna, and a GL-MT3000 router.