The Industry's Leading Wi-Fi HaLow SoC
Choose a Wi-Fi HaLow SoC for your product’s host interface, software and RF design. Compare MM8108 and MM6108 below, then use the datasheets and development resources to plan your evaluation.
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 2× to 5× 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 has 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
Start with the host connection: MM8108 supports USB 2.0 High-Speed, SDIO and SPI; MM6108 supports SDIO and SPI. Check the software and RF requirements for your design, or explore our modules if you plan to integrate a radio assembly.
MM8108
- Peak throughput (PHY)43.3 Mbps
- PackageBGA, 5 × 5 mm
- Front endIntegrated PA and LNA
- Regulatory coverageIntegrated single global SKU
- Software modelsSoftMAC; FullMAC (Linux: beta, STA only)
- Host interfacesSDIO 2.0, SPI, USB 2.0
MM6108
- Peak throughput (PHY)32.5 Mbps
- PackageQFN, 6 × 6 mm
- Front endOn-chip amplification; external PA/LNA optional
- 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.
The full Wi-Fi security framework built in: WPA3, Protected Management Frames, and Opportunistic Wireless Encryption, with AES and SHA-2 encryption handled in dedicated on-chip hardware.
Easy build and integration
It behaves like Wi-Fi, because it is Wi-Fi. Native IP support means no protocol translation gateway. The same network stack, tooling, and engineering skills your team already has.
Software and host support.
A common SDK, Linux driver, and OpenWrt work across both chips. On Linux, the driver builds on the standard Wi-Fi stack your team already uses (cfg80211, mac80211, wpa_supplicant, hostapd); for microcontroller hosts, the FreeRTOS-based MM-IoT-SDK provides the driver, MAC, and supplicant.
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.
Start from a proven design, not a blank sheet. Our reference designs cover common device types, including USB and driverless dongles, security cameras, and high-power access points, each intended as a design starting point.
A supported ecosystem.
Module partners to take your design into mass production, evaluation and development kits to test and build on, and OpenWrt and GitHub support with an active developer community underneath. Support for every stage of development.
Wi-Fi HaLow from the team who helped define it
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.
As a Wi-Fi Alliance testbed vendor, our platform is part of the official test bed that other companies certify their own Wi-Fi HaLow products against.
Our silicon has been proven far beyond the lab: in independent Wireless Broadband Alliance field trials across residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural environments, and in continuous customer trials and real deployments. Detailed performance data is available on request.
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Choosing a Wi-Fi HaLow chip
For a native USB connection to your host, start with MM8108. Both chips support SDIO and SPI. Use the MM8108 datasheet and MM6108 datasheet to compare the board and interface requirements, then check the software for your host.
MM8108 specifies up to 43.3 Mbps at 8 MHz using 256-QAM. MM6108 specifies up to 32.5 Mbps at MCS7, 64-QAM, 8 MHz and a 4 µs guard interval. See the MM8108 and MM6108 datasheets for the conditions.
These are PHY rates, not the data rate your application will receive. The host, traffic and radio conditions also matter; our range guide explains what to check.
Check the release notes for your chip, operating system and connection. The MM8108 and MM6108 Linux notes list supported kernel versions and release-specific limitations.
For an MM8108 USB adapter on Windows, check the Windows USB driver notes alongside the exact adapter hardware. Confirm the documented driver, firmware, Windows version and operating mode for your setup.
Use our development resources to find evaluation hardware for the chip and host you plan to use. Confirm the exact hardware, software and regional variant with Morse before ordering.
Test the traffic your application needs to carry in the intended environment. Record the hardware, software, antenna and radio settings with the results so you can judge how they apply to your product.
