A PCIe compliant clock generator, designed for applications where reliability, board space, component count and power consumption are essential, has been released by Silicon Labs. The Si50122, which is suitable for consumer and embedded applications, is claimed to be the industry's smallest PCIe compliant clock generator.

Easing the complexity of designing clock trees, Silicon Labs' Clock Tree Expert tool is an online timing utility suitable for internet infrastructure applications such as high-speed networking, telecomms and data centre equipment. Using the tool, embedded developers can generate sophisticated, streamlined clock tree block diagrams in minutes. This reduces complexity, BOM and time-to-market.

Supporting AM, FM, FM RDS, AM/FM HD Radio, DAB and DAB+ global standards, Silicon Labs has expanded its Si468x digital radio IC family with variants for AM and AM HD Radio. The receivers suit portable and consumer electronics devices such as tabletop and clock radios, boom boxes, mini/micro audio systems, home theatre systems, docking stations, mobile phones, tablets and personal media players.

Accelerating the design of environmental and biometric sensing applications for IoT products, Silicon Labs has announced two development kits. The kits are suited for applications including home security systems, smart thermostats, smoke detectors, weather stations, smart watches, fitness bands, heart-rate earphones and other wearable products.

Claimed to provide best-in-class AM/FM and HD Radio/DAB/DMB digital radio performance for demanding car radio systems, the Si4790x tuner IC family has been announced by Silicon Labs. The automotive tuner ICs deliver exceptional flexibility and scalability for Tier 1 automotive infotainment suppliers and aftermarket car radio makers worldwide.

The Silicon Labs C8051F850 Sensorless Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor Control Reference Design is a ready to use motor control solution with production-quality hardware and software for quick evaluation and deployment in cost-sensitive applications.

Comprising high-performance clock generators and highly integrated multi-PLL jitter attenuators, Silicon Labs has announced the next-generation Si534x 'clock-tree-on-a-chip' portfolio. They are claimed to be the industry’s most frequency-flexible clock solutions offering industry-leading jitter performance for high-speed networking, communications and data centre equipment in internet infrastructure.

The Silicon Labs C8051F850 Sensorless Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor Control Reference Design is a ready to use motor control solution with production-quality hardware and software for quick evaluation and deployment in cost-sensitive applications.

Silicon Labs has introduced the industry’s most energy-efficient capacitive sensing MCUs for HMI. The new C8051F97x MCU family combines Silicon Labs’ proven ultra-low-power technology with the industry’s fastest, most accurate capacitive sensing to provide a best-in-class touch control solution for the Internet of Things, home/building automation, consumer and industrial markets.

Silicon Labs introduces a family of digital isolators which the company claims offer the highest channel count, performance, reliability and data rates for cost-sensitive consumer electronics applications requiring functional isolation of up to 1kV. The Si80xx family is based on Silicon Labs’ patented CMOS-based digital isolation technology.

Silicon Labs has announced updates to the Simplicity Studio development platform enabling developers to use their favorite computing environment and analyze the performance of capacitive sensing applications. The Simplicity Studio platform provides unified support for Silicon Labs' ARM-based 32-bit EFM32 Gecko MCUs and 8051-based 8-bit MCUs, which provide energy-friendly embedded processing solutions for a wide range of Internet of Things and ind...

Software which has been designed to simplify the development of wirelessly connected smart meters has been launched by Silicon Labs. The Wireless M-Bus software, based on the European standard EN13757-4, specifies seamless sub-GHz RF communication between various types of smart utility meters, data concentrators, mobile readout devices and heat meters (heat cost allocators).

Energy efficient ARM Cortex-M4 with FPU and DSP paired with Gecko Technology gives you higher processing throughput while saving energy in your application. The EFM32 Wonder Gecko development kit is ready to use when you get it, and includes debugger and examples. Just plug it into your PC to start, and free CMSIS-DSP library and ready made examples makes it easy to test floating point and digital signal processing.

Designed to accelerate the development of Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad (MFi) accessories, Silicon Labs has announced a 32-bit hardware and firmware development kit which helps product manufacturers get to market quickly. Supporting the all-digital Lightning connector and protocol stack, the MFI-SIM3U1XX-DK development kit targets a wide range of accessories for iOS devices including entertainment accessories, device-powered dongles, game controllers...

Designed to make the development process easier, faster and more efficient, Simplicity Studio from Silicon Labs has been enhanced and upgraded. The latest version of this software provides unified support for Silicon Labs’ 32-bit EFM32 Gecko MCUs and 8-bit MCUs.

Expanding the company's ARM-based Ember ZigBee SoC portfolio for the IoT, Silicon Labs’ EM358x SoC family provides additional flash and RAM memory options. Meeting the needs of more complex smart energy and home automation designs, the SoCs also offer USB connectivity and a local storage bootloader to help reduce BOM costs and system complexity.

Silicon Labs has announced what the company claim is the industry’s first single-chip digital ultraviolet (UV) index sensor ICs. The Si1132 and Si114x sensors are designed to track UV sun exposure, heart/pulse rate and blood oximetry and provide proximity/gesture control for smartphone and wearable computing products.

At Embedded World 2014 in Nuremburg, Germany, February 25-27, Silicon Labs will exhibit a variety of semiconductor, software and systems solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Visitors to Booth 4A-118 will see the company's latest ARM based MCUs, ZigBee and sub-GHz wireless connectivity solutions and high-accuracy sensors as well as the company's next-generation embedded development platform.

Silicon Labs has partnered with Entropic to produce a joint reference design which uses a single coaxial cable to bring broadband directly to the TV. The reference design utilises silicon tuners from Silicon Labs and Entropic's expertise in MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) home networking to bring broadband directly to the TV.

Silicon Labs annonce que Magellan a choisi le microcontrôleur éco-énergétique EFM32 Giant Gecko de Silicon Labs comme plate-forme processeur pour sa montre intelligente Echo. Titulaire d’un prix Honoree 2014 au concours CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards, Echo est la première montre de sports intelligente « ouverte » qui permet aux développeurs d’enrichir leurs apps afin ...