IoT Leader Expands Portfolio for Matter, Wi-SUN, Amazon Sidewalk and Wi-Fi 6
Silicon Labs, the leader in secure and intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world, today announced a series of new products that further expand its portfolio of multi-protocol-compliant, interoperability-driven, and robustly secure products with new products for Advance the innovations and trends shaping the Internet of Things, including Matter, Amazon Sidewalk, Wi-SUN, and Wi-Fi 6.
In the keynote address at Silicon Labs' annual “Works With Developer” conference, Silicon Labs CEO Matt Johnson detailed that the Internet of Things era is here, and thanks to its breadth of technologies, With its extensive experience and focus on the wireless IoT market, Silicon Labs has risen to the leadership position in pure IoT.
“By 2025, there will be an estimated 27.000 billion connected IoT devices, roughly 3-4 devices per person on the planet,” says Silicon Labs CEO Matt Johnson. "By focusing our Series 2 product offering and roadmap on connectivity, interoperability, power efficiency and security, Silicon Labs is positioned to be in each and every one of those devices."
The Series 2 family of SoCs was developed on the premise that as IoT matured, rather than looking for point solutions, the market would look for IoT platforms that combined hardware, software, security, tools, and support. The prediction has turned out to be true, and Silicon Labs has nearly doubled its IoT revenue since the first member of the Series 2 family debuted in 2019. Today, Silicon Labs builds on the success of Series 2 with the expansion of the family. to include four new products:
– Complete Matter development solutions providing support for Matter over Wi-Fi, Matter over Thread, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) deployment, and Matter to Zigbee and Z-Wave bridges, all ahead of the expected release of Matter 1.0 this fall.
– The first end-to-end development platform with full connectivity support for Amazon Sidewalk. Silicon Labs Pro Kit for Amazon Sidewalk offers differentiated security with Secure Vault™, subgigahertz (GHz) and Bluetooth LE connectivity, and software and tools to get Sidewalk device makers, designers, and developers to market faster .
– A new flagship SoC and power amplifier for Wi-SUN, the FG25 SoC and EFF01 Front End Module (FEM), respectively, which when used together, are designed to provide a sub-gigahertz (GHz) transmission range of up to 3 kilometers in dense urban environments without data loss.
– Silicon Labs' first family of Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE SoCs, the SiWx917, which is designed to be the lowest power and longest battery life combined Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE SoC in the industry.
Matter's end-to-end development solutions help device manufacturers leapfrog Matter 1.0
One of the biggest drivers of the new era of IoT will be the Matter standard, which will provide a unifying application layer to bring together multiple smart home ecosystems. To accelerate the adoption of Matter and make that vision a reality, Silicon Labs today announces a portfolio of Matter hardware and software solutions that provide complete and comprehensive Matter development kits for all wireless ecosystems and protocols.
Announced and made available to the public earlier this year, the core component of the platform is Silicon Labs' MG24 2,4GHz wireless SoC for Bluetooth and multi-protocol operations, and supports Matter over Thread as a one-stop solution. chip. The MG24 has an effective range of up to 200 meters indoors for OpenThread, while also allowing Bluetooth startup of new devices on the same chip. When combined with Silicon Labs' ultra-low power RS24 Wi-Fi product, the MG9116 enables Matter development on top of Wi-Fi 4 with an easy transition to Silicon Labs' single-chip Matter Wi-Fi 6 SoC in 2023. .
All Silicon Labs Matter solutions provide the best IoT security in the industry with Silicon Labs Secure Vault™.
Silicon Labs' Unify SDK, the only multi-protocol software development platform for Matter Border Routers, provides the tools to link Matter with other IoT platforms, including Zigbee and Z-Wave, and Silicon Labs Simplicity Studio and GSDK provide developers with a single development environment to enable Matter on wireless devices and seamlessly connect them to your desired ecosystem.
So, regardless of the protocol—Bluetooth, Thread, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, or Z-Wave—Silicon Labs offers hardware, software, and development tool solutions so developers can connect their products to Matter and major device ecosystems. smart. The MG24 Matter-ready SoC, RS9116 Wi-Fi SoC, Unify multi-protocol SDK, Simplicity Studio, and Gecko SDK are available today for developers and designers to start designing Matter-ready products using the wireless protocol of their choice.
Silicon Labs Delivers Industry's First Complete Wireless Development Solution for Amazon Sidewalk
As the leader in wireless connectivity, Silicon Labs is one of the only IoT semiconductor companies to offer a complete platform, including both hardware and software, serving as a one-stop-shop for IoT development. Today, Silicon Labs announces that it is extending that leadership with Amazon Sidewalk, the community network powered by millions of everyday IoT devices found in communities and organizations, offering an end-to-end development platform: The Silicon Labs Pro Kit for Amazon Sidewalk. .
The Silicon Labs Pro Kit for Amazon Sidewalk includes high-performance, low-power wireless hardware for all Sidewalk protocols, including Bluetooth Low Energy, FSK, and sub-GHz CSS, software SDKs, and security. The Pro Sidewalk Kit ships with a pre-configured software image and pre-registration from AWS, allowing developers to get started quickly with Sidewalk development, saving days of setup. Simplicity Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for all Silicon Labs technologies, guides developers through the entire Sidewalk development journey, from inception to finished code certification, in a guided, start-up process. in order to maximize innovation and work efficiency. By working alongside Silicon Labs, Amazon can better scale its development of Sidewalk from concept to launch, saving IoT device manufacturers time and resources.
“We are excited to work with Silicon Labs to enable developers to build devices and experiences powered by the secure, ubiquitous, and always-on community network we are building at Amazon Sidewalk,” said Tanuj Mohan, CEO and CTO of Amazon Sidewalk. "Silicon Labs' new Amazon Sidewalk Pro Kit streamlines the build process, so developers can deliver innovative products with Sidewalk's enhanced connectivity at scale."
Silicon Labs is delighted to be working with Oxit and New Cosmos USA Inc. on the first gas alarm to run on the Silicon Labs Amazon Sidewalk platform: a connected DeNova Detect natural gas alarm that can provide real-time gas leak alerts. . Together with Oxit, a North Carolina-based IoT design services company, New Cosmos USA Inc. will add this new alarm to its extensive portfolio of devices that help save lives. With Amazon Sidewalk, the new alarm will benefit from reliable low-bandwidth, long-range coverage, longer battery life, and no network connectivity costs. Both Oxit's Amazon Sidewalk IoT integration platform and New Cosmos USA Inc.'s new gas alarm products will be featured during this year's Works With Developers Conference.
Although anyone can build an Amazon Sidewalk device, Amazon Sidewalk connectivity is currently only available to end-users and endpoint devices in the United States. The Pro Kit is being tested today, with general availability planned for the second half of 2023.
To see how easy it is for developers to get started with Amazon Sidewalk, read our New Solution from Silicon Labs Streamlines the Amazon Sidewalk Developer Journey blog.
The new SoC FG25 and EFF01 FEM is the world's most secure long-range smart city solution with the most internal memory in the Silicon Labs portfolio
To help address the growing need for smart and connected devices in cities and other municipal environments, Silicon Labs announces the new FG25 SoC and its companion RF power amplifier, the EFF01.
Built to be the flagship SoC for Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) such as Wi-SUN and other sub-GHz proprietary protocols, the FG25 SoC combines a powerful ARM Cortex-M33 processor with the largest amount of internal memory in any SoC in Silicon Labs' portfolio. This large pool of internal memory, combined with Silicon Labs' scalable Wi-SUN Field Area Network (FAN) edge router 1.1, enables FG25 deployments to scale to hundreds of thousands of nodes. Ideal for smart cities, this scalability will allow urban planners and municipal engineers to connect streetlights, cameras, weather stations, smart meters, utility transmission systems, etc., to enable data sharing and optimization between city services in order to improve their efficiency, save costs and offer citizens more ways to interact and obtain more value from municipal services.
Along with the FG25 SoC, the EFF01 RF front-end module is also introduced. Designed to amplify the power and transmission range of the FG25 SoC, the EFF01 FEM doubles the effective range of the FG25, allowing it to operate with minimal data loss at a range of up to 3 kilometers in dense urban environments. The FG25 and EFF01 are currently in customer testing and are expected to be generally available in Q2022 2023 and QXNUMX XNUMX, respectively.
To learn more about how the FG25 and EFF01 help build smarter cities, read the Secure Sub-GHz SoC Ideal for Wi-SUN Smart City Applications blog post.
Secure, ultra-low consumption Wi-Fi 6
Deloitte's study “2022 Connectivity and Mobile Trends Survey” revealed that the average American household has up to 22 connected devices. This figure is expected to increase. But with this increased density comes additional challenges that Wi-Fi 6 is designed to address with features that provide the capacity, efficiency, coverage, and performance required by users in demanding Wi-Fi environments.
To address these challenges, Silicon Labs announces the new ultra-low energy and secure Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE Combo SoC, the first Wi-Fi 6 solution in the Silicon Labs portfolio. The SiWx917 is a one-stop solution A chip that is Matter-ready, includes an embedded application processor, and offers industry-leading power efficiency, making it ideal for low-power or battery-powered IoT devices with always-on cloud connectivity.
In addition to SiWx6's Wi-Fi 917 support for high performance in dense wireless environments, it features dual-core architecture, a four-thread ThreadArch® processor for wireless connectivity, and an ARM Cortex M4F for user application processing. . It also integrates embedded SRAM, FLASH, an AI/ML throttle, a PSA Level 2-certified enhanced safety engine, and a power management subsystem into a single 7x7 package. The SiWx917 is a fully integrated SoC, designed to deliver exceptional computing power, faster machine learning processing, best-in-class security, enough memory to run battery-powered and wireless applications, and ultra-low current consumption for long life. battery duration. This can help users reduce development costs and device footprint, future-proof their apps, and speed time to market.
The SiWx917 is currently in the sampling phase with general availability scheduled for early Q2023 XNUMX.
Find out why Wi-Fi is so important to Matter by reading our blog, Wi-Fi 6 Addressing the Greater Density of Wi-Fi IoT Devices.
Read about these news announcements and more by registering for the Silicon Labs Works With Developer Conference
These announcements and more will take place during Silicon Labs' annual Works With developer conference, the premier developer conference to develop the skills needed to create impactful connected devices, while bringing together tech brands, device makers, the alliances, designers, wireless standards and ecosystem providers that are leading the way to a more unified wireless experience.
Registration for Works With is free and sessions are available in all time zones. Visit the Works With agenda to learn more about 75+ technical sessions, 150 hands-on workshops, and XNUMX+ subject matter experts, including executives from ABI Research, Amazon, Edge Impulse, Google, Kudelski IoT, the mioty alliance, MYSPHERA, OMDIA, Oxit, Schneider Electric, SensiML, Tigo Energy and Wi-SUN Alliance. Sessions will also be available à la carte after the conclusion of Works With.
