Silicon Laboratories have announced a new series of advanced AM/FM receivers tuned for the professional audio equipment and high-end consumer market. The new Si477x AM/FM receivers offer outstanding configurability and RF performance while reducing both the complexity and system cost for FM receiver monitors, pro-audio receivers and end-user audio/video receivers.

Silicon Laboratories Inc présente aux acteurs de la diffusion vidéo numérique le démodulateur multimédia monopuce le plus avancé de l’industrie, qui va permettre aux développeurs de simplifier la conception des téléviseurs à tuner numérique intégré (iDTV), décodeurs et enregistreurs Blu-ray/DVD.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today introduced the industry’s first isolated 10-bit analog-to-digital converter products designed specifically for the demands of mains line monitoring. The new Si890x family combines Silicon Labs’ patented CMOS-based digital isolation technology and its proven ADC technology to create a robust line voltage monitoring and protection solution for power management applications.

Silicon Laboratories Inc introduit ce jour un programme de ventes de microcontrôleurs (MCU) livrés en puces nues ; conçu pour l’utilisateur, ce programme accélère la mise sur le marché et élargit la palette d’options d’achat pour les concepts de petite empreinte. Alors que les ventes de puces nues ne s’appliquent typiquement qu’à de très gros volumes, ce nouveau programme accepte une quantité minimale de commande (MoQ) de seul...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Boston-based Ember Corporation for initial consideration of $72 million, subject to an adjustment for certain working capital amounts and potential earn-out consideration.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today introduced a web-based Isolator Power Consumption Calculator that streamlines the process of assessing system power budgets for applications requiring digital isolation. The free online utility enables developers to define basic information about their isolation set-up and then calculate the power consumption in a matter of minutes.

Silicon Laboratories Inc introduit ce jour un contrôleur Power over Ethernet (PoE) simple port qui simplifie la conception d’équipements PSE (source d’alimentation par Ethernet) embarqués, à la fois plug-and-play et économiques. Le nouveau contrôleur Si3462 facilite le développement d’équipements PSE d’extrémité tels que passerelles résidentielles, boîtiers décodeurs, convertisseurs média / fibres optiques et systèmes de su...

Silicon Laboratories Inc today introduced a single-port Power over Ethernet (PoE) controller that brings economical “plug-and-play” simplicity to embedded power sourcing equipment (PSE) designs. The new Si3462 controller eases the development of PSE endpoints such as residential gateways, set-top boxes, fiber-optic media converters, and surveillance and security systems that connect to a wide variety of powered devices including VoIP phones, ...

Dans sa volonté de proposer au marché 32 bits une flexibilité de conception sans précédent, Silicon Laboratories Inc un leader en circuits intégrés mixtes à haute densité de fonctions analogiques, lance ce jour la famille de microcontrôleurs (MCU) Precision32. Architecturée autour du cœur de processeur ARM Cortex-M3, la gamme Precision32 est composée de 32 MCU SiM3U1xx et SiM3C1xx, dotées ou non d’options USB et compatibles en ter...

Bringing unprecedented design flexibility to the 32-bit market, Silicon Laboratories Inc. today introduced the Precision32 microcontroller (MCU) family. Based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, the new Precision32 family includes 32 SiM3U1xx and SiM3C1xx MCU products with footprint-compatible USB and non-USB options

Ever since the first watermills and windmills were used to generate electricity, energy harvesting has been an attractive source of energy with great potential. In recent years, energy harvesting technology has become more sophisticated and efficient, and energy storage technologies, such as supercapacitors and thin-film batteries (TFBs), have become more cost-effective.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today introduced the industry’s highest performance, lowest power sub-GHz transceivers designed to maximize range and battery life for wireless systems. The new Si446x EZRadioPRO transceiver family’s combination of superior RF performance and ultra-low power consumption makes it an ideal solution for a broad range of wireless applications including smart meters, security and home automation systems, industrial contro...

Overview of Silicon Labs' energy harvesting reference design using solar energy to power a wireless sensor node. The solar energy input can be bypassed to accept alternative energy sources such as heat, vibration, RF, etc. The reference design comes complete with the RF hardware design, networking software and USB interface.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today introduced the industry’s smallest and lowest power customizable clock generators. Available in a tiny 1.7 mm-squared package, Silicon Labs’ new Si512xx clock generator family offers up to 60 percent lower power than competing solutions and is ideal for space-limited, cost-sensitive embedded and consumer electronics such as portable media players (PMPs), industrial metering and monitoring, portable navigation d...

Silicon Laboratories Inc introduit les générateurs d’horloge personnalisables les plus petits et de plus faible consommation de l’industrie. Encapsulée dans un minuscule boîtier de 1,7 mm2, la nouvelle famille de générateurs d’horloge Si512xx de Silicon Labs consomme jusqu’à 60% moins d’énergie que les solutions concurrentes et convient idéalement aux applications embarquées et grand public à contraintes d’espace et de co�...

Silicon Laboratories annonce avoir étendu son portefeuille de générateurs et tampons d’horloge PCI Express (PCIe), proposant aujourd’hui le choix le plus large de l’industrie de solutions d’horloge conformes aux sévères spécifications PCIe Génération 1/2/3. Les nouveautés de ce portefeuille de puces de timing PCIe comportent les générateurs d’horloge Si5214x et les tampons d’horloge Si5315x, disponibles sur étagères pour ...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced the expansion of its PCI Express (PCIe) clock generator and clock buffer portfolio, providing the industry’s broadest range of clocking solutions to address the stringent specifications of the PCIe Generation 1/2/3 standards. Silicon Labs’ expanded PCIe timing portfolio includes both off-the-shelf Si5214x clock generators and Si5315x clock buffers for power- and cost-sensitive PCIe applications and th...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. will showcase its next-generation mixed-signal microcontrollers (MCUs) and development tools at Embedded World 2012 in Nuremburg, Germany, Feb. 28 - Mar. 1 at Booth 4A-211. Silicon Labs will demonstrate high-performance USB MCUs for a variety of embedded applications; ultra-low-power MCUs and wireless MCUs targeting green energy, home automation and security systems; automotive MCUs for body electronics; and the company'...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. has introduced the industry’s most energy-efficient wireless sensor node solution powered by a solar energy harvesting source. The new turnkey energy harvesting reference design enables developers to implement self-sustaining, ultra-low-power wireless sensor networks for home and building automation, security systems, industrial control applications, medical monitoring devices, asset tracking systems and infrastructure...

Silicon Laboratories Inc introduit ce jour les familles de microcontrôleurs (MCU) et de MCU à liaison sans fil de plus haute efficacité énergétique de l’industrie, pour applications embarquées sensibles à la consommation. Le nouveau MCU C8051F96x et les nouveaux MCU sans fil Si102x et Si103x exploitent une technologie basse consommation brevetée qui permet de drainer 40% de courant système en moins, et d’augmenter la durée de vie de...