Silicon Laboratories has introduced the Si5315, a jitter-attenuating clock multiplier IC that meets or exceeds the performance, integration, frequency and jitter requirements for the 1G and 10G Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) market. The Si5315 is the industry’s only SyncE clock multiplier IC to support 10G line encoding rates (161.13 MHz) in addition to SONET/SDH and Ethernet frequencies.

Silicon Laboratories has introduced a family of clock generators and buffers that provide the most frequency flexibility in the industry. Based on Silicon Labs’ breakthrough MultiSynth technology, the Si5338 is capable of synthesizing any frequency from 0.16 to 350 MHz and select frequencies to 700 MHz on each of the device’s four differential outputs, dramatically simplifying timing architectures by replacing four discrete phase-locked loop...

Silicon Laboratories has announced the Si474x, what is said to be the industry’s smallest, most fully-integrated automotive AM/FM radio receiver IC. Based on Silicon Labs’ proven digital low-IF architecture, the Si474x family is the first automotive AM/FM receiver to be implemented in CMOS, meeting demanding automotive-grade radio performance requirements while saving cost and reducing customers’ time to market. The Si474x family supports w...

At Electronica 2008, Silicon Laboratories Inc. will exhibit several innovative IC solutions for the wireless, automotive and consumer markets. During the exhibition from November 11 through 14 in Munich, Germany, Silicon Laboratories will showcase its short-range wireless, broadcast and MCU solutions for a wide variety of applications including mobile handsets, modems, MP3 players, set top boxes, voice over IP (VoIP) phones and wireless access p...

Silicon Laboratories has announced its entry into the consumer timing market with the introduction of what it says is the industry’s highest stability 100 percent CMOS oscillator, offering a replacement for crystal oscillators (XOs) with shorter lead times, lower cost, higher reliability and higher performance. The new Si500 family has the widest frequency range, widest selection of differential and single-ended clock formats, low total power c...

Silicon Laboratories Inc has announced what it says is the industry’s smallest automotive communications controller. The C8051F50x family of mixed-signal MCUs is the first to integrate an ultra high-performance internal precision oscillator to support both CAN and LIN communication networks without an external crystal or resonator. Silicon Labs’ highly-integrated, mixed-signal MCUs are ideal for applications where end-product size is critical...

Silicon Laboratories has announced the Si823x ISOdriver family, said to be the industry’s fastest and most integrated isolated gate drivers. Ideal for power supplies, motor control and lighting systems, the ISOdriver family integrates a two-channel isolator and dual driver into a single chip while improving power efficiency, enabling customers to increase power supply density and performance.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced that it is now among a select number of companies to become an International Standards Organization/Technical Specification (ISO/TS)-16949:2002 registered corporation demonstrating the company’s achievement in meeting the most stringent quality standards. This achievement brings several benefits to Silicon Labs’ automotive customers including higher confidence in products shipped, simplified manufactu...

Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its broadcast audio portfolio to include four new FM receivers. The new additions include full-featured devices with embedded antenna support to enable FM radio reception without an external wired headset and the industry’s smallest devices for space-constrained applications. Leveraging Silicon Labs’ proven RF technology, the new FM receivers make it easy to add FM functionality to an array ...

Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its broadcast audio portfolio to include four new FM receivers. The new additions include full-featured devices with embedded antenna support to enable FM radio reception without an external wired headset and the industry’s smallest devices for space-constrained applications. Leveraging Silicon Labs’ proven RF technology, the new FM receivers make it easy to add FM functionality to an array ...

Silicon Laboratories Inc has announced the Si2161 and Si2165 digital video demodulators, said to be the smallest, lowest power and highest performance demodulator solutions to support DVB-T, DVB-C and fixed reception DVB-H in a single chip. This represents the first in a new family of mixed-signal demodulators, tuners and receivers Silicon Laboratories is developing for digital and hybrid analog/digital fixed television equipment worldwide. The n...

Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its portfolio of reconfigurable, frequency-agile precision clocks to include a single input, single output jitter-attenuating clock multiplier IC. The new Si5319 Any-Rate Precision Clock is capable of generating any output frequency from either a crystal or reference clock input with 0.3 picoseconds jitter generation.

Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its small form factor microcontrollers (MCUs) with the C8051T630 family of 8-bit MCUs. Pin-for-pin compatible with Silicon Labs’ C8051F330 family, the T630 devices are low-cost, feature-rich, EPROM-based MCUs that give customers the ability to easily interchange the two MCU families for a given product platform.

Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its broadcast audio portfolio to include two high-performance radio data system (RDS) receivers. These devices meet the growing demand to couple RDS traffic message channel (TMC) and open data applications (ODA) with static GPS navigation maps to dynamically route drivers around traffic anomalies. The Si4706 and Si4749 receive RDS data with greater accuracy and reliability, offering unprecedent...

Silicon Laboratories has announced what it says is the industry’s first microcontrollers (MCUs) capable of operating down to 0.9 V, enabling portable devices to derive power from a single-cell battery for the first time at the Embedded World tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany. The C8051F9xx family’s novel 8-bit architecture with an integrated high-efficiency dc-dc boost converter, which can supply up to 65 mW of power for both internal MCU use ...

Silicon Laboratories Inc today announced that its highly integrated FM transmitter has been designed into new handsets recently introduced by two top handset makers at Mobile World Congress 2008. The Si471x FM transmitter family has been adopted by handset, portable media player and personal navigation device makers worldwide, allowing customers to cost effectively add wireless FM audio transmission capability to any portable media device.

At Embedded World 2008 in Nuremburg, Germany, Silicon Laboratories Inc. will showcase its power-efficient design capabilities based on its portfolio of industry-leading mixed-signal microcontrollers (MCUs). Silicon Labs will demonstrate innovative design techniques practices through live product and hands-on ToolStick-based demonstrations for a range of consumer and industrial applications requiring power efficiency with special emphasis on exten...

Silicon Laboratories has announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Broadband Technology AB for the Nordic electronics market. Broadband Technology will serve as a strategic representative for Silicon Labs as the company expands its presence in the Nordics.

Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its small form factor microcontrollers (MCUs) with the C8051T610 family of low cost 8-bit MCUs. Pin-for-pin compatible with Silicon Laboratories’ C8051F310 family, the T610 offers customers a cost-effective alternative in the same small footprint. The C8051T610 family is ideal for consumer and industrial applications that are under increasing cost pressure, including toys, camera modules, cel...

Silicon Laboratories has announced the enhancement of its ToolStick platform, a fully contained evaluation system in a USB stick, enabling customers to evaluate and debug its C8051F mixed-signal 8-bit MCU families and also program code into blank devices. Silicon Labs’ new programming adapter provides a unique, risk-free environment to evaluate, program and implement the MCU in their systems.