Costa Mesa, California, May 17, 2011 – smxWiFiTM now supports the Ralink RT5370 chipset used in USB WiFi adapters. smxWiFi supports all current Ralink USB WiFi chipsets: RT2573, RT2870, RT3070, RT3572, and RT5370, and it supports the RT2760 PCI chipset. For maximum flexibility, all can be purchased and used in a system, and the proper one is selected at run-time when the WiFi adapter is plugged in.
smxWiFi provides the necessary software to easily add wireless connectivity to an embedded system. It is a robust, 802.11 Media Access Control (MAC) stack specifically designed and developed for embedded systems. (An 802.11 network is a wireless local area network (WLAN) that conforms to the 802.11 standards.) smxWiFi conforms to 802.11 a/b/g/i/n. It is a mature product, released in June 2008.
Due to the complexities of the 802.11 protocol, smxWiFi requires a multitasking environment; for this, it has been integrated with our SMX(r) RTOS. A TCP/IP stack is also required; for this it has been integrated with our smxNSTM TCP/IP stack. smxWiFi is written in C. It can run on any hardware platform and can be easily ported to another RTOS and/or TCP/IP stack.
WiFi ordinarily requires a high level of security. There are two aspects of security. One is the Authentication Type and the other is the Encryption Algorithm/Protocol. For authentication, smxWiFi supports WPA, WPA-PSK, and the similar WPA2 protocols. For encryption, smxWiFi supports WEP, TKIP, and AES.
For more information, visit www.smxrtos.com/wifi.
Availability and Licensing
smxWiFi products are available now and include full source code, 90 days of technical support, and no per seat charges. All of Micro Digital’s software is royalty free and is sold with a 30-day money back guarantee. Demos are available, at no charge, from www.smxrtos.com/demo.
About Micro Digital
Micro Digital, Inc. has been in the embedded systems business for 35 years and has been producing and selling embedded software products for over 20 years. Micro Digital is dedicated to providing quality products and support for embedded systems at moderate prices. We may be contacted at 1-800-366-2491 or email: sales@smxrtos.com.
