Silicon Labs Beefs Up IoT SoCs

Junko Yoshida, EETimes, Mar. 14, 2017 – PARIS-In Internet of Things (IoT) devices, use cases are everything. The problem is that chip designers can't possibly know all the variations and mutations of IoT apps in real life, unless they hear from customers who actually use the IoT chips in their own IoT devices.

After a year of selling the previous version of multiprotocol wireless IoT SoCs, Silicon Labs is back in Nuremberg, Germany this week, for Embedded World, with a better mousetrap. The company is rolling out EFR32xG12, a portfolio of newly expanded Wireless Gecko SoCs, which it describes as "substantially enhanced" over the Geckos introduced last year.

In hopes of reaching a broader set of market applications, Silicon Labs' new IoT SoCs integrate more memory, support for switched multiprotocol and a "full featured" MCU, Daniel Cooley, senior vice president and general manager of Silicon Labs' IoT products, told EE Times.Click here to read more ...

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