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Silicon Labs and Arduino collaborate to facilitate access to Matter

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Collaboration allows developers to go from new card to installed device in less than two minutes

Silicon Labs today announced a new partnership with Arduino, the global leader in open source hardware and software, to facilitate the development of Matter applications over Thread to the community of 33 million Arduino developers. The first Matter software libraries for Arduino, developed in collaboration with Silicon Labs, are available today in the Silicon Labs xG24 kit and the SparkFun Thing Plus Matter – MGM240P development board based on the xG24.

“Arduino's simplicity, ease of use, and powerful development environment make it very attractive to its community of more than 33 million users, whether they are beginners or have extensive development experience,” said Rob Shane, Vice President of General Market Sales and Applications at Silicon Labs. “By combining Arduino software libraries and Silicon Labs-based hardware, developers get the best of both thanks to our unique levels of security, energy efficiency and processing power for Matter.”

Code samples, reference designs, documentation, and other resources are now available on the Arduino Core for Silicon Labs Devices GitHub page.

Arduino accelerates Matter development to Silicon Labs developers

Arduino is an ecosystem that offers hardware products, software solutions and cloud services accessible to everyone. In line with the open source of the entire project, the Arduino programming language, which is used in its IDE (Integrated Development Environment), has grown and evolved over the years thanks to the contributions of its very active community and its user base, which thus contribute to the platform meeting the changing needs of the embedded computing market. Its intuitive interface and enormous ease of use have made it a favorite for both students taking their first steps in programming and professional developers. This new alliance represents a fundamental step forward in this direction to make the development of a Matter device easier than ever.

“Powering innovators has always been a priority goal for Arduino, and our collaboration with Silicon Labs takes that commitment to a new dimension. This alliance represents an important step forward to facilitate the development of Matter applications, within and outside our community. By integrating the simplicity and powerful development environment of Arduino with the excellent features of Silicon Labs hardware, we are providing users with a unique blend of accessibility and advanced features. We are excited to lay the foundations, together with Silicon Labs, for the next wave of innovation in the IoT environment,” commented Fabio Violante, CEO of Arduino.

In fact, Arduino shared software resources are extremely powerful as they come with a wide range of pre-built libraries that help developers get their devices up and running quickly. In internal testing, Silicon Labs engineers prepared a new board configured as a Matter device ready to be added to a network in less than two minutes. This represents a big step forward in making Matter development more accessible, easier, and faster than ever.

The second phase of the alliance focuses on the commercialization of new hardware

A complete platform for Matter development requires hardware and software, and in the second phase of the collaboration between Arduino and Silicon Labs both companies are jointly developing a new member of the successful family of Arduino NANO development boards for small devices. The new member of the family will incorporate the MGM240 module from Silicon Labs.

The module, based on the MG24 SoC, provides wireless connectivity using the Matter, Thread and Bluetooth® protocols. Thanks to features such as an ARM Cortex-M33, 10 dBm output power, low current consumption and the maximum security of PSA Level 3 Certification, Arduino developers can create robust, fast and energy-efficient applications while also ensuring the end user privacy. Its large memory of up to 1536 kB Flash, 256 kB RAM and 32 GPIO provide the capacity and extensibility needed for Matter.

The alliance between Silicon Labs and Arduino anticipates the objective of facilitating the development of IoT

This new partnership between Silicon Labs and Arduino is part of Silicon Labs' continued goal to make IoT development as simple and fast as possible. To achieve this, Silicon Labs is not only collaborating with some of the world's leading development tool providers, such as Arduino, but is also developing its own tools, which will take a big step forward with the introduction of Simplicity Studio 6 throughout of this year. This next version of Simplicity Studio will allow developers to integrate their own favorite IDE, meaning they can program their devices in their preferred environment and using their favorite language. Learn more about Silicon Labs and how they strive to make things easier for developers:

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