802.11b Interfacing??

[sriganeshsk]

Hello Everyone..

This is a Graduate student from EE dept. I'm doin a curriculum project in wireless this summer for my graduate study. I would like to know "Is there any way we can interface a Microcontroller and 802.11b??". If so, how to inteface it?? I will be very happy and thankful if anyone can come up with some references or sources regarding the interfacing in 802.11b.

Please help me in this regard.

Thanking You,

Ganesh.

[zhaoyong]

Hi,

I am also a graduate student on the same field. We are now
planning to dev a 802.11 baseband system on silicon chip.

I know much of the 802.11b chip is a SOC system and there
is always a MPU such as ARM-X embedding in the baseband
chip. Most vendor implement the MAC protocole with this MPU.

And the current implentation always embedded the HOST bridge
function on the same chip, the MPU also serviced for this.

So, I think the interface between the MPU and 802.11b is always
a embedded and specific-to-implementation one.

Of course, if you want to develop a embedded host system with
your micro-controller, and this system will integrated the 802.11b
subfunction, there is actually a problem of interface.

As to my knowledge, most 802.11b chipset adopt the interfaces such as PCI, mini-PCI, PCIMIA and USB. You can check on the
website of those companies, such as Intersile(www.intersile.com).

Wish these can help you.

ZhaoYong.