Silicon Labs has moved to 22nm for its latest series of wireless MCUs for IoT nodes. Announced today, there are parts for Zigbee, Bluetooth and Matter-over-Thread, and for mains or battery power. SixG301 is the mains-powered (line-powered) family, where ‘x’ becomes ‘B’ for the Bluetooth LE (and Bluetooth mesh) focussed variant, or ‘M’ for multi-protocol types. Concurrent multi-protocol operation will ...
Silicon Labs has announced a pair of Bluetooth-enabled microcontroller families, to be available in Q2 this year: BG22L (diagram right) devices are aimed at asset tracking tags and personal healthcare devices, and support Bluetooth 5.4 and Bluetooth Direction Finding. Processing power comes from a 38.4MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with up to 352kbyte of flash and up to 24kbyte of ram ...
Silicon Labs has introduced an all-CMOS drop-in alternative to high-speed digital opto-couplers, claiming that it offers longer life than traditional LED/photodiode isolators plus lower input turn-on and output quiescent current. "Opto-couplers use ...
Silicon Labs showed continuing support for analogue TV standards, as it announced a family of hybrid TV tuners. The family covers just about every combination of digital reception, analogue reception, and analogue demod...
Silicon Labs has introduced a family of microcontrollers based around ARM’s 32bit Cortex-M3 core. Called Precision32, the family includes 32 SiM3U1xx and SiM3C1xx products with footprint-compatible USB and non-USB options. Applications are sought in portable medical devices, point-of-sale peripherals, motor control, industrial monitoring, barcode scanners, optical touch screen interfaces, sensor controllers and home automation systems. On-chip peripherals include: Oscillators and ...
Unlike traditional clock generators that require a separate PLL to synthesize each non-integer related output frequency, the Si5350/51 devices will synthesise a different frequency on each of their eight output clocks
Predicting the future is increasingly challenging as we navigate through the continuing economic downturn, Necip Sayiner, president and CEO at Silicon Laboratories tells Electronics Weekly
Necip Sayiner, president and CEO of RF CMOS semiconductor specialist Silicon Laboratories, talks to EW about the potential of the technology. EW: Will RF CMOS win out against GaAs and others? Necip Sayiner: The trend for RF to be developed in CMOS will continue and relegate GaAs and BiCMOS to low volume niche and legacy products. CMOS lowers manufacturing costs and ...
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