Silicon Laboratories has announced the appointment of William Bock as senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Mr. Bock will be resigning as a director on Silicon Laboratories’ board where he served as chairman of the audit committee since the company went public in March, 2000. In addition to his familiarity with Silicon Laboratories’ products, strategy and mixed-signal history,...

Silicon Laboratories has announced a highly-integrated MCU family designed specifically for automotive electronics. The C8051F52/3x family leverages Silicon Laboratories’ proven track-record for designing high-performance mixed-signal MCUs in a small footprint, which is essential for many automotive electronics applications. By offering the highest functional density, the C8051F52/3x family of MCUs provides customers cost-effective and easy-to...

Silicon Laboratories Inc recognised as a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, is celebrating what it describes as ten years of mixed-signal innovation. By fundamentally changing semiconductor architectures, Silicon Laboratories has achieved multiple industry firsts in the communications, wireless, networking, power and microcontroller markets. Silicon Laboratories has built a portfolio of market leading products levera...

Silicon Laboratories Inc has announced a highly integrated FM transmitter family offering superior audio performance in a very small 3 x 3 x 0.55 20-pin QFN package. By reducing the bill of materials and power consumption of existing solutions, the Si471x FM transmitter family allows customers to cost effectively add wireless FM audio playback capability to any portable media device including cell phones, MP3/digital media players, navigation/GP...

Silicon Laboratories has introduced the ToolStick Starter Kit, a comprehensive evaluation and development platform for use with Silicon Laboratories’ C8051F mixed-signal microcontrollers. Available in a portable USB stick format, the ToolStickSK provides an easy to use and feature rich tool for only $24.99. From mobile handsets to weigh scales, the ToolStickSK simplifies and speeds development of a wide range of applications that can benefit fr...

Silicon Laboratories today announced the Aero® IIed single-chip EDGE transceiver with a digital interface. The Aero IIed is fully compliant with the 2.5G DigRF specification version 1.12 and is pre-validated with leading DigRF baseband implementations. This latest addition to the patented, proven Aero family provides the industry’s smallest, most integrated and easiest to design and manufacture DigRF transceiver for GSM/GPRS/EDGE handsets, s...

Silicon Laboratories today announced the Aero® IIed single-chip EDGE transceiver with a digital interface. The Aero IIed is fully compliant with the 2.5G DigRF specification version 1.12 and is pre-validated with leading DigRF baseband implementations. This latest addition to the patented, proven Aero family provides the industry’s smallest, most integrated and easiest to design and manufacture DigRF transceiver for GSM/GPRS/EDGE handsets, s...

Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its proven FM tuner product family with the introduction of the Si4702 and the Si4703, the industry’s smallest, most integrated FM radio tuners. The Si4702/03 devices leverage Silicon Laboratories’ patented low-IF digital architecture, offering superior performance, integration, size and cost.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced that Sony Ericsson has adopted the Si4701 FM tuner for the W950 Walkman® phone. By using the highly-integrated Silicon Laboratories Si4701 with support for the Radio Data System (RDS), Sony Ericsson quickly implemented outstanding FM stereo receiver functionality in less than 20 mm² of board area on the ultra-slim, stylish, UMTS-enabled W950 Walkman® phone with mobile music capability.

Silicon Laboratories has announced a single-phase point of load (POL) reference design enabling engineers to easily and quickly implement digitally-controlled POLs for many end applications including servers, telecom, datacomm and storage systems, medical equipment and aeronautical systems.

Silicon Laboratories has announced the Si4901 AeroFONE single-chip phone, the industry’s most integrated, highest performing single-chip phone for the GSM ultra low cost handset (ULCH) market. The Si4901 expands the company’s family of single-chip phones to address demand for low cost, highly integrated GSM handsets in emerging economies.

Silicon Laboratories has announced what is said to be the industry’s most highly integrated, IEEE 802.3af compliant, Power over Ethernet controller for powered device applications. The Si3400 is the only PD controller to integrate on-chip diode bridges, a transient surge suppressor and a switching regulator field effect transistor. The Si3400 controller’s unprecedented level of integration simplifies PoE design efforts by reducing the tota...

Silicon Laboratories has announced the acquisition of Silembia, a privately held French company that develops semiconductor intellectual property for digital demodulation and channel decoding. Silicon Laboratories acquired Silembia in an all-cash transaction for approximately $20 million.

Silicon Labs used todays Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) to announce the expansion of its digital power product portfolio. The Si844x is said to be the industry’s highest performance, easiest-to-use, lowest cost 2500VRMS digital isolator product family.

Silicon Laboratories microcontrollers has introduced a new MCU that integrates up to 32 kB Flash memory and high-performance analog peripherals, including a SmaRTClock with failsafe recovery features, into a compact 5 x 5 mm package. Its small size makes it ideal for portable equipment, instrumentation and measurement devices, consumer medical products and industrial meters.