Silicon Labs

Wi-Fi 6 plus Bluetooth LE 5.4 Wireless SoC

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Silicon Labs announced the SiWx915 SoC, the second in its family of Wi-Fi 6 devices, aimed for energy efficient or line powered IoT wireless devices using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), Matter, and IP networking for cloud connectivity. It includes a Wi-Fi 6 plus Bluetooth LE wireless CPU subsystem, and an integrated micro-controller (MCU) application subsystem, Security, memory, peripherals subsystem all in a single 6×6 mm QFN package.

The wireless subsystem consists of a multi-threaded processor (ThreadArch®) running up to 160 MHz, baseband digital signal processing, analog front end, 2.4 GHz RF transceiver and integrated power amplifier. The application subsystem consists of an ARM® Cortex®-M4F running up to 180 MHz, embedded SRAM, and FLASH.

The ARM® Cortex®-M4F is dedicated for peripheral and application related processing, while the ThreadArch® runs the wireless and networking stacks on independent threads, thus providing a high performance, fully integrated solution that is ready for a wide range of embedded wireless IoT applications.

Target applications include Smart Homes, Consumer Health and Wearables, Clinical Medical, Industrial, Retail, Smart Building and Cities, Asset Tracking.

Silicon Labs is represented in Israel by Elina Engineering 

 

Contact: Yossi Chen, +972-44902499, yossi@elina.co.il

Silicon Labs Announced Development Kit for Bluetooth Location Services

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Silicon Labs announced the BG22 Bluetooth Dual Polarized Antenna Array Pro Kit, used to develop Bluetooth Location Services based on its recently introduced BG22 SiP modules and SoCs, which can operate for up to ten years on only a coin cell battery. With Silicon Labs’ software, these devices can track assets, perform indoor navigation and locate tags with sub-meter accuracy.

The BG22 Bluetooth Dual Polarized Antenna Array Pro Kit is designed for evaluation and development of Angle of Arrival (AoA) and Angle of Departure (AoD) support provided in the Bluetooth 5.1 specification. It includes a 4×4 Antenna Array board with reference designs and documentation to enable integration of this array into locator and gateway designs, and all the necessary tools for developing high-volume, scalable Direction-Finding solutions.

In many industries, locating inventory and physical assets can often be a time-consuming process. This is a problem across many industries, such as an assembly line for an automotive manufacturer with an average of 30,000 parts per vehicle. While there are several existing location-based technologies, they are plagued by limitations: GPS is ineffective indoors, Wi-Fi has varying degrees of accuracy, and the very-accurate ultra-wideband (UWB) can be expensive and has high energy requirements.

According to Silicon Labs, Bluetooth is a mature technology that can overcome many of these barriers. Building on Bluetooth 5.1, Silicon Labs has developed new software, designed to maximize the location-finding capabilities of our BG22 series of SoCs and SiP modules.

Silicon Labs is represented in Israel by Elina Engineering 

Contact: Yossi Chen, +972-44902499, yossi@elina.co.il

 

Bluetooth BLE 5.2 practical workshops by Silicon Labs

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Silicon Labs holds a series of Bluetooth workshops focused on Bluetooth BLE 5.2 solutions. During the workshops, engineers learn new ways to integrate Bluetooth connectivity into the next project. Each practical session will explore and solve challenges developers often face when building new Bluetooth designs. These solutions will be demonstrated using Silicon Labs ultra-low-power and secure EFR32BG22 Bluetooth 5.2 SoC.

Next topics include: How Security Encryption is Handled by Hardware and Software, Understand Your Bluetooth Mesh Traffic Using Network Analyzer, PDM Interface to Digital Microphones and Security Configuration. Atendees will recieve the Thunderboard BG22 Kit: a small form-factor, optimized development platform for adding Bluetooth connectivity to battery-powered IoT products.

The Thunderboard EFR32BG22 ships with a Bluetooth demo that works with a cloud connected smartphone app, showcasing easy collection of environmental and motion sensor data, as well as button and LED control. A built in SEGGER J-Link debugger ensures easy debugging through the USB Micro-B connector.

Elina Engineering represents Silicon Labs in Israel. Contact: Yossi Chen. +972-544902499

For More Information: Bluetooth Workshops: BG22 Project Series