Release Notes for MAC 802.15.4 - 2011

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License

This software component is licensed by ST under BSD 3-Clause license, the “License”; You may not use this component except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:

https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

Purpose

IEEE 802.15 Working group intends to define a standard that enable a low cost and low power communications. The IEEE 802.15.4 standard defines physical layers (PHY) and a Medium Access Control (MAC) which intend to address many simple network application space as Internet of Things solutions.
Two different kind of devices participate to IEEE 802.15.4 network:

The provided 802.15.4 MAC API is integrated as shown on the figure below:

The MAC 802.15.4 from STM32_WPAN middleware makes the link between the network layers and the RF protocol processor.

Update History

Main Changes

First release

MAC API is based on latest official IEEE Std 802.15.4-2011 document available from :