CC3100 Getting Started with WLAN AP

Overview and application details

This sample application demonstrates how to configure CC3100 in Access-Point mode. Any WLAN station in its range can connect/communicate to/with it as per the standard networking protocols. On a successful connection, the device pings the connected station.

By default, this application communicates w/ CC3100 over SPI. The SDK has UART-Drivers as well for MSP430F5529LP and Tiva-C platforms. For using the UART interface to communicate w/ CC3100, macro SL_IF_TYPE_UART has to be defined in the application-project's properties.

Note: This wiki page is only applicable for CC3100-SDK v1.0.0 and upward releases. For documentation on older SDKs' examples, refer corresponding file in <cc3100-sdk-installation-location>\cc3100-sdk\docs\examples\

Source Files briefly explained

• main - Initializes the device, configures it in AP mode and verifies the connection status

Usage

• Connect the board to a Windows-PC and configure the terminal-program for seeing the logs - CC3100 & CC3200 Terminal Setting has detailed instructions for configuring the terminal-program
• Open sl_common.h and modify values of SSID_AP_MODE, PASSWORD_AP_MODE and SEC_TYPE_AP_MODE. These values will define the device's credentials in AP mode
• Build and run the application using IAR/CCS
  • The device will be configured in AP mode and shall wait for clients to connect w/ it.
  • It also pings the connected clients to check the connection status\
• See the self explanatory logs on the terminal-program's console.
• Connect a client to the device and wait for few seconds for the test to complete
• On success, below message will be displayed on the terminal

Note: : User needs to reconfigure the device in 'Station-Mode' for executing other sample applications. Refer function configureSimpleLinkToDefaultState in this example's main.c for configuring the device in 'Station-Mode'.

Building for Tiva-C LaunchPad

To build the application for Tiva-C LaunchPad, follow below steps:

• IAR
  • Open the project's Options
  • Replace the tivaware path under C/C++ Compiler->Preprocessor section
    
    
  • Replace the tivaware library path under Linker->Library section

• • Build the project

• Code Composer Studio
  • Open the project property
  • Update TIVAWARE_ROOT variable available under Resource->Linked Resources with tivaware root directory
    
    
  • Build the project
    
    

Note: The solution provided in SDK for tiva-c-connected-launchpad is using the Boosterpack 2 interface.

Limitations/Known Issues

None

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