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The contract satisfied by an implementation of an IEEE 802.15.4 MAC device. Any IEEE 802.15.4 MAC device should expose the following high-level functionality:
- Configuration of addresses and transmit power
- Preparing frames (data frame, command frames, beacon frames)
- Transmitting and receiving frames
Outlining this in a trait allows other implementations of MAC devices that divide the responsibilities of software and hardware differently. For example, a radio chip might be able to completely inline the frame security procedure in hardware, as opposed to requiring a software implementation.
Traits§
- MacDevice
- RxClient
- Trait to be implemented by users of the IEEE 802.15.4 device that wish to receive frames.
- TxClient
- Trait to be implemented by any user of the IEEE 802.15.4 device that transmits frames. Contains a callback through which the static mutable reference to the frame buffer is returned to the client.