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Advanced Wi-Fi Hardware and Verification

Timing-critical MAC, PHY implementation, RF, security, and debug.

A rigorous advanced course on timing-critical Wi-Fi MAC and PHY implementation, MIMO, calibration, security engines, performance analysis, and verification. The curriculum is grounded in the curated technical references and preserves their technical depth, code, diagrams, decision rules, and failure analysis. Every lesson adds objectives, an applied lab, review questions, and concrete completion evidence. The course closes with a substantial capstone: Create an implementation and verification plan for a high-throughput Wi-Fi datapath with aggregation, Block Ack, MIMO, security, and rate adaptation.

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What you will learn

Leave with a working mental model.

  1. 01 Partition Wi-Fi hardware across MAC, PHY, RF, firmware, and DMA boundaries
  2. 02 Reason about EDCA, Block Ack, MCS control, synchronization, and channel estimation
  3. 03 Analyze MIMO, beamforming, RF calibration, and security datapaths
  4. 04 Build coverage, checkers, and debug plans for timing-sensitive failures

Before you begin

Prerequisites

  • Wi-Fi MAC and PHY fundamentals
  • Digital signal-processing concepts
  • Hardware verification experience

Curriculum

Course contents

8 modules · 21 lessons

01 Module 1: Hardware Partitioning 2 lessons
  1. 01 Wi-Fi MAC Architecture Preview
  2. 02 Wi-Fi MAC-PHY Interface Preview
02 Module 2: Timing-Critical MAC 4 lessons
  1. 01 Wi-Fi DCF and CSMA/CA
  2. 02 Wi-Fi EDCA and QoS
  3. 03 Wi-Fi Timing, IFS, and NAV
  4. 04 Wi-Fi Aggregation and Block Ack
03 Module 3: High-Throughput MAC 1 lesson
  1. 01 Wi-Fi Performance and Airtime
04 Module 4: PHY Implementation 5 lessons
  1. 01 Wi-Fi Synchronization and Channel Estimation
  2. 02 Wi-Fi OFDM and PLCP
  3. 03 Wi-Fi PHY Architecture
  4. 04 Wi-Fi Channel Coding and Interleaving
  5. 05 Wi-Fi MIMO and Beamforming
05 Module 5: RF and Calibration 2 lessons
  1. 01 Wi-Fi RF Front End and Calibration
  2. 02 Wi-Fi Rate Control and MCS
06 Module 6: Security and Robustness 3 lessons
  1. 01 Wi-Fi Security Engine Hardware
  2. 02 Wi-Fi MAC Frame Format
  3. 03 Wi-Fi Power Save and Beaconing
07 Module 7: Verification and Debug 2 lessons
  1. 01 Wi-Fi Verification and Debug
  2. 02 Wi-Fi Common Hardware Pitfalls
08 Module 8: Capstone Studio 2 lessons
  1. 01 Capstone Brief and Architecture
  2. 02 Validation, Review, and Definition of Done