Supporting latest standards for secure networking: The new Panasonic Industry PAN9520 Wi-Fi module

With the PAN9520, Panasonic Industry releases a new 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n embedded Wi‑Fi module providing all security features required for compliance with WPA2 and WPA3-Personal Wi-Fi security standards.

The integrated crystal ensures connection performance over the entire temperature range and lifetime. “Although the PAN9520 is one of the smallest modules on the market, it offers a rich set of peripherals”, says Tomislav Tipura, Wireless Connectivity Product Manager at Panasonic Industry. This set comprises full-speed USB OTG, SPI, UART, I²C and many more.

“Being a fully integrated module”, as Tipura summarizes, “the PAN9520 can be implemented quickly and easily into end-product designs – with or without a host controller.”

It includes Flash memory, a 40MHz crystal oscillator and a chip antenna. Panasonic Industry offers two variants with either 2 MB PSRAM and 4 MB Flash or no PSRAM and 1 MB Flash.

The PAN9520 supports access point mode and station mode in parallel, allowing simultaneous Wi-Fi connections to smart devices and home network routers.

Using the Espressif IoT Integrated Development Framework (ESP-IDF), engineers can develop software for a wide range of applications, and access numerous software examples which can be used to speed up development.

Learn more on the PAN9520 here.

Main Photo: The new PAN9520 is based on the Espressif ESP32-S2 microcontroller, which includes a high-performance 32-bit Xtensa® LX7 CPU, a high sensitivity wireless radio, a baseband processor, bootloader and 320kbytes of SRAM. An encryption unit supports a range of security and encryption protocols, including CCMP, TKIP, WAPI, WEP, BIP, and AES.