Interfacing nrf7002 with non nordic mcu

[sivaram]

Hi ,

We are starting a new project development based on stm32 mcu's, would like to choose nrf7002 for the wifi part, we would like to know is there a possibility to interface with non nordic mcu. have gone through the forum and saw a few questions were raised around a year back, any improvement on the current status. 

[Simonr]

Hi

As of the following PR in Zephyr, nRF70 drivers are supported in the Zephyr project, and thus non Nordic hosts should also be usable. Unfortunately, there are some disadvantages when using non-Nordic hosts, as we won't be able to test on every 3rd party host, so there might be compatibility issues with helper libraries with outer hosts. Additionally, we might not be able to provide the same level of support as for our own hosts. Even though the driver is supported in upstream Zephyr, there might be helper libraries available in the nRF Connect SDK that are not in Zephyr. These are not required, but they might provide more features or better support for the nRF7002 than libraries in Zephyr.

This public DevZone ticket goes more into detail on 3rd party Wi-Fi hosts. Let me know if you have any specific questions I can help you answer.

Best regards,

Simon