Welcome to pico.hd-wireless.se

NOTE: This developers website is not yet launched. If you are a beta customer, please refer to the documentation included in the release package.

This website aims to collect information about how to use the oWL Pico Software API with Wi-Fi devices from HD Wireless.

If this is your first visit here, check out GettingStarted to get an overview of the information available on this site.

Wi-Fi devices from HD Wireless is available on platforms ranging from small 8-bit based systems to 32-bit MCU's and ARM-based cores. The Wi-Fi devices comes in different hardware configurations to suit different kinds of applications and platforms. The devices are available with SPI, SDIO and UART interfaces. The Wi-Fi devices can be used with a real time kernel, on a free running system (no OS) or on a Linux-based system.

This website will focus on the SPB800 Wi-Fi device. Documentation and software for other Wi-Fi devices can be found at http://www.hd-wireless.se.

What is SPB800 and oWL Pico?

The SPB800 is a network device which provides a unique level of capabilities directly on the chip. All features being easily controlled from any host by using the provided oWL Pico Software API. The oWL Pico software API has a footprint of a few kilobytes and provides functions to support full Wi-Fi link management, network address management and TCP, UDP and RAW sockets - resembling a standard BSD socket interface.

Using the SPB800 will remove the need for Wi-Fi drivers, IPstack and security protocols on the host while still keeping all the flexibility and features through the oWL Pico software API. This allows for quick development of full featured network applications on any host CPU.

Note that the SPB800 can work in two different modes; the Serial-to-WiFi mode and the Pico mode. This website will only focus on the Pico mode. See http://www.hd-wireless.se for information about other configurations.

The oWL Pico software API comes in full source code and can be downloaded from this website.