Silicon Labs present IoT solutions at Embedded World

Showcasing the company's development tools, EFM32 Zero Gecko MCU starter kits and sensor boards will be given away to qualified developers visiting the booth. Silicon Labs’ demonstrations will highlight the energy efficiency and performance of its flagship embedded products, as well as the ease of use of its energy-aware development tools.

Silicon Labs will demonstrate how EFM32 Zero Gecko MCUs (the world’s lowest energy 32-bit MCUs, according to the company) can be combined with small-footprint, accurate and easy-to-use sensors. This enables innovative smart home, smart energy and security applications for the IoT that can sense temperature, relative humidity, ambient light, intrusion and gestures, all within the extreme power constraints required for long battery life. With a portfolio of more than 240 orderable EFM32 Gecko products based on ARM Cortex-M0+, M3 and floating-point-enabled M4 processors, Silicon Labs will help you to select the right energy-saving EFM32 Gecko MCU solution for your next embedded application.

The Simplicity Studio development platform will also be on show. This offers a unified, comprehensive ecosystem and portal for developers using Silicon Labs’ 32-bit EFM32 Gecko MCUs and 8-bit MCUs. Simplicity Studio simplifies design efforts with IDE, hardware configurator, build tools and real-time power analyser, supported by demos, software examples, data sheets, application notes and access to technical support and community forums.

An energy-friendly, single-chip MCU+transceiver solution, the Si106x/8x s wireless MCUs address the power and space constraints of battery-operated, wirelessly connected devices. The wireless MCUs offer a choice of cost-effective EZRadio and high-performance EZRadioPRO transceiver options, with the smallest sub-GHz wireless MCUs (according to Silicon Labs) offering best-in-class RF sensitivity and output power in 5x6mm QFN packages.

Silicon Labs' Ember ZigBee solutions for the IoT connect with the leading ZigBee platform for 2.4 GHz wireless sensor networks. Combining Ember ZigBee wireless SoCs, EmberZNet PRO mesh networking protocol stack and powerful development tools, developers can create IoT applications that interconnect hundreds and even thousands of devices in a single mesh network.

Also on display at Embedded World, Silicon Labs’ Si4356 EZRadio receiver combines ultra-low power of 50 nA in standby mode with excellent sensitivity to enable superior battery life. An easy-to-use sub-GHz wireless solution for remote controls, RKE, sensor networks, security and smart homes, the 3x3mm standalone receiver is easy to configure and comes with tested, ready-to-use antennas.

Silicon Labs experts will also give two presentations: "Energy Harvesting Solutions for the IoT and Remote Wireless Sensors” will be presented on the Tuesday at 11:00-11:30 a.m. in the Exhibitor’s Forum, Hall 2, 2-408; and “Low Power and RF technologies paving the way for the growth of Internet of Things applications,” will be presented on the Wednesday at 3:30-4:00 p.m., at Session 16, Wireless Technologies IV, Convention Centre East (NCC Ost).

Geir Førre, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Microcontroller Products, Silicon Labs, commented: “The embedded industry recognises that 2014 will be the year of the Internet of Things. The next wave of connected devices will require energy-friendly MCUs that extend battery life to months and years, wireless solutions for both mesh networking and point-to-point connectivity, and a profusion of low-cost, highly accurate sensors that deliver invaluable data to help make our lives easier, safer, healthier and more enjoyable. These silicon solutions exist today, and Silicon Labs is eager to share them with developers at Embedded World.”