Abstract
In recent years, there are strong developments in wireless networks such as WLAN, Bluetooth, etc. IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee is a new solution in order to be adopted in wireless sensor network. It is a new standard uniquely designed for low rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs) and purposes to meet low data rate, low power consumption and low cost wireless networking.In this thesis, we provide a hardware implementation of Zigbee Media Access Control (MAC) layer. We present a basic hardware architecture which supports data transmission and reception, association and disassociation with network and Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA-CA), etc. We use verilog to design MAC, synthesize according to TSMC 0.18um cell library and also verify by means of Xilinx FPGA