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Chapter 23 802.11b/g Wireless
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23.1 Overview
Network Port C implements an 802.11b/g compatible wireless LAN radio. It consists of a
baseband processor, high-speed A/D and D/A converters, and an interface for one of sev-
eral external radio-frequency (RF) transceivers. The external transceiver is responsible for
the up-conversion and down-conversion of the RF signal.
The receiver and transmitter each have a 2048-byte FIFO that is shared with the Ethernet
peripheral; the I/O pins are also shared. Because of this, only one of the two network
peripherals can be enabled at any particular time.
Communication with the external transceiver is accomplished through a 3-wire serial
interface. Support is also provided for a parallel automatic gain control feedback loop.
Control for multiple antennas is available, providing support for separate receive and
transmit antennas or switched antenna diversity reception.
The MAC processing is handed by a combination of the baseband processor and software
on the Rabbit; any timing-critical MAC operations are handled automatically by the base-
band. These operations include time management and transmission-interval spacing. The
MAC also performs the CRC check of all received frames and handles the virtual carrier
sense functionality.
The Rabbit 5000 supports both the infrastructure and the ad-hoc modes. Multicast trans-
missions are supported as well.
The external interface to the external transceiver consists of 20 digital pins and 8 analog
pins. A 20 MHz clock is required as an input. A separate low-speed A/D converter is avail-
able to monitor the transmit power via software.
The wireless peripheral also contains an AES encryption/decryption engine for both trans-
mitted and received packets. Up to four expanded keys can be stored in the peripheral at
one time.
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