WCN3660/3680

[Eugene Krasnikov]

1) both wcn3660 and wcn3680 have firmware.

2) I guess there is always something like bootloader that will load
firmware and then will start executing it.

3) Definitely own processor. WCN36XX shares memory with host. Not sure
about ROM.

2014-08-28 5:19 GMT+01:00 Karunakar Reddy <karan.tillu at gmail.com>:
> Hi Eugene,
>
> We are doing a Sniffer/Injector feasibility on WCN3680 .There were few
> unknown things here. Please answer the below queries:
>
> 1) From the information I had, it seems like WCN3680  doesn't have any
> firmware unlike the prior WCN 3660. Here WCNSS_qcom_wlan_nv.bin contains
> only rate-to-power and general configuration parameters. Is that true?
>
> 2) Prior to WCNSS_qcom_wlan_nv.bin download (which seems to be first message
> sent to target), how the target is able to understand
> WCN36XX_HAL_DOWNLOAD_NV_REQ request. There are like around 190 commands
> defined which are used for Host-Target communication.  Does Wireless
> Connectivity SubSystem run any code from the flash?
>
> 3) Our host driver communicates with SMD driver. From my knowledge, SMD
> drivers are used for Inter-processor communication. Does the Wireless
> Connectivity SubSystem has its own processor, ROM and memory?
>
> Please help us.
>
> Thanks
> Karan



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Best regards,
Eugene