The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to add intelligence to commercial systems in offices, shopping malls and even warehouses. Smart offices are modern marvels, reducing energy use while improving the workspace. Malls and stadiums use wireless connectivity to better serve customers and track occupancy numbers. Sensors and RF tags continue to revolutionise asset tracking in warehouses. All of these systems need both power and data and here&...

The continuous growth in the number of connected devices around us will lead to an expected 12.86 billion IoT devices by 2020 in the consumer segment alone. This represents a growth rate of almost 35% per year since 2017, and it’s generally expected that annual growth rates will remain in double digits across all IoT segments until at least 2025. Marius Munder, Senior Staff Engineer, Systems Architect, Silicon Labs, explains further about t...

The UT Solar Car team's design involves the use of Silicon Laboratories Gecko MCUs, allowing for a variety of readings for the driver.

Silicon Labs and Signify are collaborating on an extension of the Friends of Hue programme enabling ecosystem partners to develop smart light switches for Philips Hue systems. Silicon Labs is providing the Zigbee cluster libraries, software tools, reference application and technical expertise to help participating companies certified by the Friends of Hue programme quickly design and produce light switch products guaranteed to work flawlessly wit...

Silicon Labs has introduced the next generation of its Wireless Gecko platform, Series 2, designed to make IoT products more powerful, efficient and reliable. Building on the RF and multiprotocol capabilities of the Wireless Gecko portfolio, Series 2 delivers the most versatile and scalable IoT connectivity platform. The initial Series 2 products include small-form-factor System-on-a-Chip (SoC) devices with a dedicated security core and an o...

A family of isolated analogue amplifiers, voltage sensors and delta-sigma modulator (DSM) devices have been introduced by Silicon Labs, designed to provide accurate current and voltage measurement with very low drift across temperature, the products are based on Silicon Labs’ robust, third-generation isolation technology.

New Bluetooth software for the Wireless Gecko portfolio, and a comprehensive connectivity solution for the Internet of Things (IoT), have been released by Silicon Labs. Silicon Labs’ commercial, industrial and retail customers can enhance their location-based services, using the direction finding feature added to Bluetooth in version 5.1 of the Bluetooth Core Specification.

It has been announced that Silicon Labs will showcase its latest Wireless Gecko connectivity solutions for smart home, lighting and building automation applications at embedded world 2019. Hands-on demonstrations at Silicon Labs’ Booth 4A-128 highlight easy-to-deploy Bluetooth mesh and Bluetooth 5 solutions, device-to-cloud connectivity with low-power WiFi, Zigbee home automation and control, and next-generation Z-Wave 700 smart home soluti...

The WiFi portfolio of modules and transceivers, enabling developers to create end node products with power efficiency, RF blocking performance and advanced security, has been expanded by Silicon Labs. Designed for the specific needs of IoT applications, the Wireless Gecko portfolio reportedly cuts WiFi power consumption in half.

It has been announced that Xiaomi (01810.HK) has launched new smart home products using Bluetooth mesh networking technology from Silicon Labs. The new products from Mi Ecosystem partners include smart LED light bulbs, candle bulbs, downlights and spotlights. The voice-assistant XiaoAi smart alarm clock serves as a gateway to control smart Bluetooth mesh lights through voice commands.

The next-generation Z-Wave 700 has been launched by Silicon Labs, on the Wireless Gecko platform, the comprehensive hardware and software connectivity solution for the Internet of Things (IoT). Z-Wave 700 delivers on Silicon Labs’ vision and platform integration roadmap following the company’s strategic acquisition of Z-Wave technology in April 2018.

Tyson Tuttle is President and CEO of Silicon Labs. He joined Silicon Labs in 1997 and has had an important impact on the company's strategy and technical development.

At electronica 2018 Silicon Laboratories presented its Lighting Reference Design RD-0098. The RD-0098 works with ZigBee 3.0 protocol and is designed for Home automation. The RD-0098 consists of a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3/4 processor, encryption accelerators AES128 and advanced Crypto accelerators SHA-1/2 and ECC, PHY and MAC layers 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4, and flash memory 512kB – 1024kB.

Recognition as Executive of the Year at the 2018 ASPENCORE World Electronics Achievement Awards, was won by Tyson Tuttle, CEO of Silicon Labs. ASPENCORE, a premier electronics industry media network, announced the WEAA awards at its first annual Global CEO Summit where Tuttle presented a keynote on how integrated hardware, software platforms and industry collaboration will advance the IoT.

In this video, Silicon Labs are making development for cellular IoT applications easy with the Digi XBee3 LTE-M Expansion kit.

With a new LTE-M expansion kit featuring Digi International’s Digi XBee3 pre-certified cellular modem, Silicon Labs has delivered ultra-low-power, long-range wireless connectivity to battery-powered IoT devices. The LTE-M expansion kit works with Silicon Labs’ EFM32 Giant Gecko 11 starter kit.

See live demonstrations of Bluetooth, WiFi and Zigbee connectivity for the smart home and industrial IoT with Silicon Labs at electronica, Hall C4, Booth 112, to explore the latest silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world. Discover what’s next for the Internet of Things and discuss the latest IoT innovations with wireless experts.

The Wireless Xpress solution recently released by Silicon Labs has been designed to help developers get IoT applications connected and running in a day, with no software development necessary. The Wireless Xpress provides a configuration-based development experience and includes certified Bluetooth 5 Low Energy (LE) and WiFi modules, integrated protocol stacks and tools.

A collaboration on a new outdoor parking IoT sensor solution between Q-Free and Silicon Labs aims to make it faster and easier for automotive drivers in urban areas to locate open parking spots. The companies have worked together to create Q-Free’s ParQSense Smart Parking Sensor, which uses the Silicon Labs’ Wonder Gecko wireless MCU for control and Sub-GHz connectivity. 

Silicon Labs has expanded its Si5332 any-frequency clock portfolio with new versions combining the clock IC and a quartz crystal reference inside the same package, simplifying board layout and design. The all-in-one Si5332 solution guarantees reliable start-up and operation over the lifetime of the product, unlike traditional solutions that source the clock IC and crystal from different suppliers and risk interoperability issues.