Morse Microelectronics Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow™ Platform and Industry's First 8MHz Reference Design

Morse Microelectronics Launches Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow™ Platform and Industry’s First 8MHz Reference Design

The new Wi-Fi HaLow™ certified solution will bring innovation to a wide range of low-power, long-range IoT applications.

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Morse Microelectronics is one of the first companies to announce the industry's first Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow reference design and the industry's first 8MHz reference design

Wi-Fi Alliance announces Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow, highlighting Morse Microelectronics’ technology leadership

Sydney, Australia and Irvine, California, USA, November 2, 2021 – Morse Microelectronics, the fabless semiconductor company reinventing Wi-Fi® for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced one of the industry’s first Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ HaLow™ solutions and the industry’s first 8MHz reference design, demonstrating the company’s technology leadership. Morse Microelectronics is the official Wi-Fi HaLow test platform provider and is helping to drive availability of the Wi-Fi Alliance® Wi-Fi HaLow 802.11ah certification program. Morse Microelectronics is an active contributor to Wi-Fi Alliance certification and has been in a rapid development phase in Wi-Fi HaLow certification efforts.

Morse Microelectronics is one of the first semiconductor companies to offer certifiable Wi-Fi HaLow chipsets, modules and reference designs that are now available for customer deployment. Upcoming IoT products based on Morse Microelectronics Wi-Fi HaLow solutions are ready for Wi-Fi certification and will benefit from multi-vendor interoperability, accelerated time to market and consumer acceptance.

“The breakthrough potential of extending Wi-Fi’s already transformative features to sub-1 GHz spectrum cannot be underestimated,” said Michael De Nil, co-founder and CEO of Morse Microelectronics. “We applaud the Wi-Fi Alliance’s leadership in ushering in a new era of long-range, low-power, and high-capacity Wi-Fi HaLow experiences for consumers. As the leading Wi-Fi HaLow innovator, we have made significant investments in R&D to ensure that the market has SoCs and modules that offer extraordinary benefits unlike any Wi-Fi or LPWAN technology available today. The addition of Wi-Fi HaLow to sub-1 GHz spectrum is a game changer for consumers and enterprises, from smart homes and smart cities to industrial markets, and everything in between.”

“By actively participating in the Wi-Fi Alliance’s certification program, companies like Morse Microelectronics are helping to accelerate market acceptance of Wi-Fi HaLow as a standards-based, long-range, low-power IoT connectivity solution,” said Kevin Robinson, vice president of marketing at the Wi-Fi Alliance. “Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow devices and products enable a wide range of applications in smart buildings, smart cities, industrial and agricultural environments by operating Wi-Fi in the sub-GHz spectrum, greatly expanding the range of Wi-Fi applications.”

Industry-leading Wi-Fi HaLow solution

Morse Microelectronics is a leading supplier of Wi-Fi HaLow system-on-chip (SoC) and module products. These SoCs and modules, combined with the company's easy-to-use evaluation kits and reference designs, give early access partners and lead customers the opportunity to evaluate the market-leading throughput, energy efficiency and extended range of the company's Wi-Fi HaLow solutions.

Morse Microelectronics' diverse portfolio of SoCs, modules, software, IP and patents has played a key role in accelerating the deployment of Wi-Fi HaLow in multiple industries. Morse Microelectronics' comprehensive Wi-Fi HaLow portfolio includes the industry's smallest, fastest and lowest power SoCs that comply with the IEEE 802.11ah standard. The MM6104 SoC supports 1MHz, 2MHz and 4MHz channel bandwidths. The higher-performance MM6108 SoC supports 1MHz, 2MHz, 4MHz and 8MHz bandwidths, capable of delivering tens of Mbps of throughput to support high-definition video streaming. These Wi-Fi HaLow SoCs offer 10 times the range, 100 times the area and 1000 times the capacity of traditional Wi-Fi solutions. 

Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow Dedicated Platform 

Morse Microelectronics' Wi-Fi HaLow platform is designed to comply with the IEEE 802.11ah standard and is expected to redefine low-power, long-range Wi-Fi connectivity for the Internet of Things. The MM6108 and MM6104 SoCs provide a single-chip Wi-Fi HaLow solution that integrates radio, PHY and MAC, delivering data rates from tens of Mbps to hundreds of Kbps at the longest range. The radio supports operation in the sub-GHz ISM bands between 850 MHz and 950 MHz worldwide.

The MM6108 and MM6104 RF interfaces provide the option of using an on-chip amplifier for typical low-power, low-cost IoT devices, or an additional external PCB-mounted power amplifier (PA) or front-end module (FEM) for ultra-long-range applications. The RF receiver uses a high-linearity low-noise amplifier (LNA).

Morse Microelectronics' low-power IC design, combined with the IEEE 802.11ah standard, can extend sleep time and reduce power consumption of battery-operated client devices, achieving longer battery life than other existing IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax generations. 

Key Features of Morse Microelectronics Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow Platform

●IEEE 802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLow transceiver for low-power, long-range IoT applications

●Supports radios in global sub-1GHz frequency bands

●On-chip power amplifier with external PA/LNA options

●Power Management Unit (PMU) supports ultra-low power operation mode

●WPA3 Security

●SDIO 2.0 and SPI host interface options

●GPIO/UART/I2C/PWM peripheral options

●6 mm x 6 mm QFN48 package

How to get samples

Morse Microelectronics’ Wi-Fi HaLow evaluation kit, as well as samples of the MM6108 and MM6104 SoCs and modules, are available now to lead customers.

About Morse Microelectronics

Morse Microelectronics is a fast-growing fabless semiconductor company developing Wi-Fi HaLow solutions for the IoT market, with connectivity ranges up to 10 times that of traditional Wi-Fi technology and years of operation on a single battery. The company was co-founded by Wi-Fi pioneers and innovators Michael De Nil and Andrew Terry, and joined by Professor Neil Weste, the original inventor of Wi-Fi, and veterans of the wireless communications industry, and the team designs Wi-Fi chips that are used in billions of smartphones. Headquartered in Australia with offices in China, India and the United States, Morse Microelectronics' strong and diverse systems team, IP and patent portfolio enable Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity across the entire IoT ecosystem, from surveillance systems and access control to industrial automation and mobile devices, allowing connected devices to reach further.