Silicon Labs announced that Magellan has selected the EFM32 Giant Gecko microcontroller as the energy-friendly processing platform for the company's Echo smart sports watch, the the first “open” smart sports watch platform that enables application developers to augment their apps to be viewed on and controlled from the wrist.

This video shows how to drive an electronic paper display with the EFM32. The application note makes use of an EPD extension board made by Pervasive Displays which is connected to the EFM32GG-STK3700 Starter kit.

Enhancing its 8-bit Si10xx wireless microcontroller family, Silicon Labs announce two new options optimised for cost-sensitive and performance-intensive designs. Featuring industry-leading RF performance and the lowest overall power consumption in their class, the Si106x and Si108x MCUs are ideal for home automation, security and access control, sensor networks, asset tracking and long-range control applications for the Internet of Things.

Silicon Labs introduit un pont contrôleur qui offre une solution haute performance pour interfacer un hôte USB et un bus SPI (serial peripheral interface) ; cette solution clés en mains dispose de pilotes pour les systèmes d’exploitation Windows, OS X et Linux. Le pont contrôleur USB vers SPI CP2130 de Silicon Labs présente un débit à la pointe de l’industrie, une capacité de...

Silicon Labs announce a new turnkey solution for bridging a universal serial bus host and a serial peripheral interface bus. The new CP2130 USB-to-SPI bridge controller is ideal for new designs or upgrading legacy designs to include USB for embedded applications including USB dongles, tablets, handheld controllers and testers, blood glucose monitors, docking stations, point-of-sale products, data logging modules and card readers.

Anders, our Application Engineer and one of EFM23 X-mas tree kit creators, demonstrates how to build a tree when you have received the kit. This project was designed for all of Silicon Labs' employees as a special Christmas gift from the company but some lucky winners from our Facebook and forum contests will also get the kit before Christmas!

Silicon Labs introduit ce jour une nouvelle famille de capteurs d’humidité relative (HR) et de température qui simplifie la conception de produits captant l’humidité et qui se caractérisent par une efficacité énergétique et une facilité d’emploi de pointe. Seconde génération de capteurs HR de Silicon Labs, la famille Si701x/2x combine une puce CMOS standard &a...

Silicon Labs has today announced its second-generation relative humidity and temperature sensing solution, the Si701x/2x sensors. The new sensors simplify RH sensing designs while providing industry-leading power efficiency and ease of use. Target applications include accurate RH sensing for home automation, HVAC, refrigeration, healthcare, remote monitoring, automotive and industrial equipment.

To speed time to market and reduce development cost, the EFM32 Zero Gecko family is supported by the EFM32ZG-STK3200 starter kit, and the complimentary Simplicity Studio software suite, a comprehensive graphical user interface environment for all major computing platforms including Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac/OS X. Available with the Zero Gecko starter kit at no charge, Simplicity Studio provides developers with one-click access to all the...

Silicon Labs announce a brushless DC motor control reference design for sensorless BLDC applications using Silicon Labs’ C8051F85x/6x microcontrollers. Featuring ready-to-use hardware and software, Silicon Labs’ new reference design provides a comprehensive, system-level solution that accelerates embedded development for a wide range of motor control applications.

Silicon Labs annonce que Misfit Wearables, concepteur et fabricant de produits informatiques à porter sur soi, a choisi les microcontrôleurs (MCU) 32 bits EFM32 Leopard Gecko de Silicon Labs comme contrôleurs éco-énergétiques pour son Shine, qui est le capteur d’activité physique le plus élégant du marché. Le MCU Gecko communique avec l’accélérateur &agr...

Misfit Wearables has selected the Silicon Labs EFM32 Leopard Gecko 32-bit microcontroller for the world’s most elegant physical activity monitor, the Misfit Shine. Offering utmost energy efficiency, the Gecko MCU communicates with the Shine’s 3-axis accelerometer, drives user interface LEDs and hosts a Wicentric Bluetooth low energy software stack. This enables connectivity with the Shine App running on Apple iOS devices.

It may not look or act quite the way it used to, but the 8051 is far from gone. Tom David Principal Design Engineer, Microcontroller Products, Silicon Labs, discusses further in this ES Design magazine article.

Silicon Labs has today announced the appointment of Alf-Egil Bogen to the company's board of directors. An inventor of the highly successful AVR microcontroller, Mr. Bogen is a 20-year semiconductor veteran who was chief marketing officer of Energy Micro until it was acquired by Silicon Labs in July 2013.

Silicon Labs introduit les microcontrôleurs (MCU) 32 bits à cœur processeur ARM Cortex-M0+ les plus économes en énergie de l’industrie. Les MCU EFM32 Zero Gecko sont conçus pour minimiser la consommation énergétique système  d’un large panel d’applications alimentées par batterie, comme les appareils mobiles de santé et de fitness, les montres connec...

Silicon Labs introduit une famille de démodulateurs universels pour diffusion vidéo numérique (DVB) qui supporte les plus récents standards mondiaux de réception DVB par câble, terrestre et par satellite. Conçue pour simplifier la conception de récepteurs complexes et performants pour téléviseurs numériques intégrés (iDTV) et décodeurs, la famille Si2...

Silicon Labs introduce a new family of universal digital video broadcast demodulators that support the latest worldwide DVB standards for cable, terrestrial and satellite reception. Designed to simplify the design of complex, high-performance video front-ends for integrated digital TVs and set-top boxes, Silicon Labs’ new Si216x/6x2 family includes the industry’s first dual-channel DVB demodulators targeting multi-receiver iDTV and ST...

Why is EFM32 called Gecko? A gecko's energy consumption is only 10% compared to mammals of similar size. The EFM32 MCUs consume only 25% of the energy of competing products while delivering high levels of 32-bit performance based on ARM processor cores.

Silicon Labs introduit ce jour une nouvelle famille de tuners TV silicium proposant les performances et intégrations les plus hautes, et le coût système le plus faible de l’industrie, tout en supportant tous les standards mondiaux de TV terrestre et par câble. La nouvelle famille de tuners Si21x7 fournit aux fabricants de TV et de boîtiers décodeurs (STB) un niveau inégalé de performances...

Silicon Labs introduit ce jour une famille de microcontrôleurs (MCU) 8 bits haute intégration, d’une grande richesse fonctionnelle, optimisée pour les applications de commande de moteur sensibles aux coûts. Les MCU C8051F85x/6x combinent des périphériques analogiques et de communication de pointe, de 2 à 8 ko de flash, un cœur 8 bits de haute performance, un boîtier compact et un pr...