Silicon Labs has introduced a family of high-speed, multi-channel digital isolators designed to provide a complete, highly integrated solution for signal and power isolation. Silicon Labs’ Si88xx isolators feature an integrated DC/DC converter with 78% efficiency, delivering up to 2W of power and offering very low EMI emissions and high noise immunity.

Adding capacitive sensing to a product can be a daunting challenge that requires you to maintain sensor robustness and responsiveness while minimising current consumption and addressing other system-level priorities of the product. Download this whitepaper to learn how to incorporate capacitive sensing into your design while balancing other priorities within the system.

Silicon Labs has introduced a digital audio bridge chip and evaluation kit designed to simplify development of accessories for iOS devices. The CP2614 interface IC provides a turnkey audio bridge solution for a wide range of Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad (MFi) devices that use the lightning connector. Target applications include audio accessories such as guitar and microphone recording dongles, audio docks and headphones.

Silicon Labs has introduced a complete portfolio of receivers/audio processors and multi-standard digital radio ICs designed to deliver high AM/FM and digital radio performance for the global car radio market. The Si479xx family of AM/FM receivers and digital radio tuners delivers a benchmark for car radio reception performance with on-chip audio processing at the lowest system cost.

Silicon Labs and Digi-Key have announced an IoT design contest for pioneering developers who want to create connected 'things' that will help make the world a smarter, more connected and energy friendly place. The “Your IoT Connected World” design contest is open to inventors of all skill levels and runs from now through 17th July, with three winners to be announced on 3rd August.

Silicon Labs has introduced a family of high-performance digital STB tuner ICs designed to reduce the cost, complexity and power consumption of cable, terrestrial, hybrid terrestrial/satellite and IP-based STB products. The Si2144 and Si2124 digital tuner ICs help STB designers reduce board space and BOM cost through a combination of single-chip integration and small package size.

Silicon Labs is collaborating with ARM to define and deliver the first power management APIs for ARM mbed platforms. Adding power management APIs to mbed will bring energy efficiency to standards-based solutions optimised for ultra-low-power, battery-operated connected devices. The APIs will enable the mbed community of more than 100,000 registered developers to optimise their mbed-enabled ARM Cortex-M architecture-based designs for the utmost en...

Silicon Labs has unveiled a complete Bluetooth Smart solutions portfolio designed to help developers minimise the energy consumption, cost and complexity of wireless IoT designs. Silicon Labs’ recent acquisition of Bluegiga, a leading supplier of wireless modules and software, accelerates the company’s ability to deliver comprehensive Bluetooth Smart solutions.

Silicon Labs has introduced the company’s next-gen 8-bit MCU portfolio designed for today’s low-power, small-footprint IoT applications. Silicon Labs’ EFM8 MCU family includes three lines of highly integrated, peripheral-rich MCUs optimised for exceptional price/performance value, low-power capacitive touch control and streamlined USB connectivity.

Silicon Labs has introduced the next generation of Simplicity Studio, the industry’s first MCU/wireless IDE enabling concurrent MCU and RF design for a wide range of IoT applications. This software release adds support for Silicon Labs’ 8-bit EFM8 MCU family, EZR32 sub-GHz wireless MCUs and EM35xx Ember ZigBee wireless SoCs, the most widely used 2.4GHz connectivity solution in the 802.15.4 mesh networking market.

Silicon Labs has announced that it has acquired Bluegiga Technologies Oy, a Finland-based provider of short-range wireless connectivity solutions and software for the IoT. Bluegiga’s wireless portfolio includes low-power Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth Classic, and WiFi modules, as well as software stacks, development tools and SDKs for a multitude of applications in the industrial automation, consumer electronics, audio, automotive, retail...

This video shows how to combine a Silicon Labs Si1102 proximity sensor with LittleBits base kit, piezo buzzer and LED to create a LittleBits proximity sensor.

It has been announced that Silicon Labs’ CEO, Tyson Tuttle, will deliver the opening-day keynote at Embedded World 2015, which takes place from 24th to 26th February in Nuremburg, Germany. In his keynote address, titled ‘Engineering the IoT: An RF Expert’s View on Technology Trends and Challenges’, Tuttle will discuss technology trends and challenges in today’s IoT market. 

A family of temperature sensors, which offer outstanding precision and power efficiency, has been released by Silicon Labs. The Si705x temperature sensors consume only 195nA (typical average current) when sampled once per second, minimising self-heating and enabling multi-year coin cell battery operation. Offering four accuracy levels up to ±-0.3°C, the devices maintain their accuracy across the full operating temperature and volt...

Silicon Labs has introduced a next-gen digital TV demodulator family, offering expanded support for the latest satellite, terrestrial and cable standards. The Si218x family includes the world’s first demodulators which support the recently launched DVB-S2X specification, which adds features and higher performance to the DVB-S2 standard.

Designed for data centre applications including servers, storage and switches, a family of PCIe Gen1/2/3 fanout buffers has been introduced by Silicon Labs. The Si5310x/11x/019 family has been designed for today’s leading x86 motherboard and server systems and the devices are claimed to be the industry’s most power-efficient fanout buffers.

Design starts with the very first choice made; now software tools can help engineers make that an informed choice. By Greg Hodgson, MCU Marketing Director, Silicon Labs.

Silicon Labs today introduced next-generation EZRadio and EZRadioPRO wireless ICs offering industry-leading power efficiency, wireless range and flexibility. Operating in the sub-GHz band, the new Si4x55 EZRadio and Si4x6x EZRadioPRO families support a variety of proprietary, legacy and emerging protocols including IEEE 802.15.4/4g, Wireless M-Bus and Wi-SUN. The EZRadio and EZRadioPRO families provide a versatile, high-performance multiprotocol ...

  Designed for the global hybrid TV and digital TV markets, the Si2151 and Si2141 TV tuner ICs have been released by Silicon Labs. The company's sixth-gen TV tuners comply with all worldwide terrestrial/cable TV standards and support both digital and analogue video broadcasts.

Silicon Labs introduced the creation of a Thread beta program for selected customers and ecosystem partners, enabling them to accelerate their product development plans for IP-based mesh networking. As a founding member of the Thread Group, Silicon Labs has been a major contributor to the definition and development of the new IP-based mesh networking software stack for the Connected Home.