The Industry's Leading Wi-Fi HaLow SoC
Morse Micro's MM8108 delivers the fastest Wi-Fi HaLow data rates, up to 43.3 Mbps PHY, with the industry's best transmit-power efficiency in the smallest chip and module footprint available.
What the silicon delivers
Wi-Fi HaLow operates at a lower frequency than other Wi-Fi, giving it up to 10× the range of conventional and two to five times better penetration through walls, floors, and obstructions. Morse Micro silicon carries higher data rates than any other dedicated long-range wireless network technology, delivered by the world's first sub-1 GHz 256-QAM physical layer, providing enough for security camera video and real-time device data at distances conventional Wi-Fi cannot reach.
In addition to reach, Morse Micro have built in advancements in power efficiency, interference mitigation, and connection reliability. Our SoCs support the standard Wi-Fi power-save modes and WPA3 security in a single-chip Wi-Fi HaLow solution.
The Morse Micro Wi-Fi HaLow chips
Morse Micro makes two Wi-Fi HaLow SoCs. The MM6108 was the fastest, smallest, longest-range, and lowest-power Wi-Fi HaLow chip available at its release. The MM8108 is the second generation, and improves on all four metrics.
MM8108
- Peak throughput (PHY)Peak throughput (PHY)
- PackageBGA, 5 × 5 mm
- Front endIntegrated PA and LNA
- Regulatory coverageIntegrated single global SKU
- Software modelsSoftMAC, FullMAC
- Host interfacesSDIO 2.0, SPI, USB 2.0
MM6108
- Peak throughput (PHY)Peak throughput (PHY)
- PackageQFN, 6 × 6 mm
- Front endExternal PA / LNA required
- Regulatory coverageExternal regional front end
- Software modelsSoftMAC
- Host interfacesSDIO 2.0, SPI
Wi-Fi HaLow is Wi-Fi
It behaves like Wi-Fi, because it is Wi-Fi. Native IP support means no protocol translation gateway, with the same network stack, tooling, and engineering skills your team already has.
Over-the-air firmware updates.
Enough bandwidth to update firmware across the whole fleet in the field, which low-data-rate long-range radios cannot practically deliver.
Certified and interoperable.
Wi-Fi HaLow is IEEE 802.11ah, certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow. Certified products interoperate across vendors, so there is no single-supplier lock-in.
Wi-Fi grade security.
Including WPA3 encryption [fill out other details]
Easy build and integration
It behaves like Wi-Fi, because it is Wi-Fi. Native IP support means no protocol translation gateway, utilising the same network stack, tooling, and engineering skills your team already has.
Software and host support.
A common SDK, Linux driver, and OpenWrt support span both chips, built on the standard Wi-Fi driver stack and tooling your team already uses (cfg80211/mac80211, wpa_supplicant, hostapd), across Linux and RTOS-based hosts. The MM8108 adds a USB 2.0 host interface alongside SDIO and SPI.
Integration flexibility.
Choose how much to offload to the silicon, from host-driven operation to a largely autonomous radio that wakes the host only when there is data to move. The higher-offload modes, including FullMAC, run on the MM8108.
Reference designs.
Production-intent reference designs, including the industry's first 8 MHz reference design, shorten the path from evaluation to a working product.
A supported ecosystem.
OpenWrt and GitHub support, evaluation and development kits, module partners, and an active developer community mean you are not building alone.
Wi-Fi HaLow from the leaders in the field
Morse Micro has been designing Wi-Fi HaLow silicon since before the certification program existed, and delivered one of the first Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow platforms. That radio design experience is why our implementations perform in congested RF (radio frequency) environments, not only on the bench.
Morse Micro is a Wi-Fi Alliance testbed vendor: other companies use our platform to test, refine, and certify their own Wi-Fi HaLow products.
Our silicon has been through Wireless Broadband Alliance field trials as well as countless internal and B2B testing and demos. Detailed data is available on request.
Morse Micro Products
Explore our other Morse Micro Wi-Fi HaLow products.
Modules
Pre-certified, drop-in modules that add Wi-Fi HaLow without the RF engineering.
Development Resources
Plug-and-play kits to test range, throughput and power in your own environment.
