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SimpleLink Host Driver
0.0.5.1
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The SimpleLink CC31XX/CC32XX family allows to add Wi-Fi and networking capabilities to low-cost embedded products without having prior Wi-Fi, RF or networking expertise. The CC31XX/CC32XX is an ideal solution for microcontroller-based sensor and control applications such as home appliances, home automation and smart metering. The CC31XX/CC32XX has integrated a comprehensive TCP/IP network stack, Wi-Fi driver and security supplicant leading to easier portability to microcontrollers, to an ultra-low memory footprint, all without compromising the capabilities and robustness of the final application.
To make it simple, TI's SimpleLink CC31XX/CC32XX platform capabilities were divided into modules by topic (Silo). These capabilities range from basic device management through wireless network configuration, standard BSD socket and much more. Listed below are the various modules in the SimpleLink CC31XX/CC32XX driver:
The porting of the SimpleLink driver to any new platform is based on few simple steps. This guide takes you through this process step by step. Please follow the instructions carefully to avoid any problems during this process and to enable efficient and proper work with the device. Please notice that all modifications and porting adjustments of the driver should be made in the user.h header file only. Keep making any of the changes only in this file will ensure smoothly transaction to new versions of the driver at the future!
The first step is to create a user.h file that will include your configurations and adjustments. You can use the empty template provided as part of this driver or you can choose to base your file on file from one of the wide range of examples applications provided by Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments made a lot of efforts to build set of predefined capability sets that would fit most of the target application. It is recommended to try and choose one of this predefined capabilities set before going to build your own customized set. If you find compatible set you can skip the rest of this step.
The available sets are:
The SimpleLink driver support two memory models:
If you choose to work in dynamic model you will have to provide alloc and free functions to be used by the Simple Link driver otherwise nothing need to be done.
The SimpleLink device generate asynchronous events in several situations. These asynchronous events could be masked. In order to catch these events you have to provide handler routines. Please notice that if you not provide a handler routine and the event is received, the driver will drop this event without any indication of this drop.
The SimpleLink device supports several standard communication protocol among SPI and UART. CC32XX Host Driver implements SPI Communication Interface The interface for this communication channel includes 4 simple access functions:
The way this driver would be implemented is directly effecting the efficiency and the performances of the SimpleLink device on this platform. In CC32XX, SPI implementation uses DMA in order to increase the utilization of the communication channel
The SimpleLink driver could run on two kind of platforms:
CC32XX SimpleLink Host Driver is ported on Multi Threaded OS enviroment. The Host driver is made OS independent by implementing an OS Abstraction layer. Reference implementation for OS Abstraction is available for FreeRTOS and TI-RTOS.
If you choose to work in multi-threaded environment under different operating system you will have to provide some basic adaptation routines to allow the driver to protect access to resources for different threads (locking object) and to allow synchronization between threads (sync objects). In additional the driver support running without dedicated thread allocated solely to the simple link driver. If you choose to work in this mode, you should also supply a spawn method that will enable to run function on a temporary context.
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