We’ve added a new Wi-Fi module to our growing portfolio of Internet of Things solutions. The new SX-ULPGN is a low-cost, ultra low-power Wi-Fi module designed specifically for use in high-volume embedded wireless products including smart home devices, systems used in factory automation, wearables, and medical devices.

The SX-ULPGN features a hostless mode that eliminates an external MCU to achieve the lowest system cost and ultra low-power. In hostless mode, the module’s internal CPU can act as a host with the application running from the internal memory. Peripherals and sensors connect to the CPU using any of the available interfaces, including UART, SPI, I2C, I2S, ADC, PWM, and GPIO. In addition, using our UART AT command option, you can quickly add a serial-to-Wi-Fi converter for existing MCU-based designs without porting any host driver.

Based on the Qualcomm Atheros QCA4010 System-on-Chip (SoC), the SX-ULPGN integrates RF front end and an internal PCB antenna with a full Wi-Fi stack, full networking and security stack, an embedded CPU, and memory for on-chip application development using ThreadX® and AllSeen Alliance’s AllJoyn® software framework. Support for HomeKit™ and Google Weave™ will be available soon and we’ll be working with several partners for Cloud Connectivity.

The SX-ULPGN is FCC/IC & CE certified and features station, AP, Concurrent and P2P (Wi-Fi Direct) modes; open system WPA-PSK (WPA2-PSK) authentication; and WPS, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, SNTP, HTTP and SSL/TLS protocols. For a full list of features, download the full product specifications.

Ready to get started? You can easily try out all the SX-ULPGN software and hardware features and develop IoT applications using the QCA supplied SDK using our SX-ULPGN evaluation kit, which is available now from Arrow Electronics.

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