Datasheet

NXP Semiconductors
88W8977
2.4 GHz/5 GHz Dual-band 1x1 Wi-Fi 4
®
and Bluetooth
®
5 Combo SoC
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Product short data sheet Rev. 1 — 13 July 2020
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2 Wi-Fi subsystem
2.1 IEEE 802.11 standards
• 802.11b data rates of 1 and 2 Mbps
• 802.11b data rates of 5.5 and 11 Mbps
• 802.11a/g data rates 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 54 Mbps for multimedia content
transmission
• 802.11g/b performance enhancements
• 802.11n with maximum data rates up to 72 Mbps (20 MHz channel), 150 Mbps (40
MHz channel)
• 802.11d international roaming
• 802.11e quality of service
• 802.11h transmit power control
• 802.11h DFS radar pulse detection
• 802.11i enhanced security
• 802.11k radio resource measurement
• 802.11mc precise indoor location and navigation
• 802.11n block acknowledgement extension
• 802.11r fast hand-off for AP roaming
• 802.11u Hotspot 2.0 (STA mode only)
• 802.11v TIM frame transmission/reception
• 802.11w protected management frames
• Fully supports clients (stations) implementing IEEE Power Save mode
2.2 Wi-Fi MAC
• Simultaneous peer-to-peer and Infrastructure Modes
• RTS/CTS for operation under DCF
• Hardware filtering of 32 multicast addresses and duplicate frame detection for up to 32
unicast addresses
• On-chip transmit and receive FIFO for maximum throughput
• Open System and Shared Key Authentication services
• A-MPDU Rx (de-aggregation) and transmit (aggregation)
• 20/40 MHz coexistence
• Reduced Inter-Frame Spacing (RIFS) receive
• Management information base counters
• Radio resource measurement counters
• Quality of service queues
• Block acknowledgement extension
• Dynamic frequency selection
• TIM frame transmission/reception
• Multiple-BSS/Station
• Transmit rate adaptation
• Transmit power control
• Long and short preamble generation on a frame-by-frame basis for 802.11b frames
• Mobile hotspot