Silicon Laboratories introduced two USB microcontroller (MCU) families that provide the industry's fastest, easiest and most economical path to USB connectivity. Expanding on Silicon Labs' popular USB MCU portfolio, the new C8051F38x and C8051T62x/32x USB MCU families are ideal for a wide range of applications such as home automation systems, thermostats, USB dongles, smart card readers, GPS localizers, touch panels, sensor data loggers, portable...

See how to enable innovative touchless user interfaces. Silicon Labs' sensors, with up to 3 LED drivers support 3D motion sensing, offer the ability to recognize touchless gestures in the X, Y and Z directions.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today announced that it is providing the enabling wireless microcontroller (MCU) technology for a new line of sub-GHz wireless mesh networking modules from California Eastern Laboratories (CEL).

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today introduced a family of crystal oscillators (XOs) and voltage-controlled XOs (VCXOs) designed to minimize jitter, system cost and design complexity for a wide range of high-performance, cost-sensitive applications up to 250 MHz.

Silicon Laboratories Inc and IMST GmbH today introduced a turnkey wireless M-Bus solution designed for the smart energy market. The comprehensive hardware/software solution combines IMST's industry-leading expertise in the wireless M-Bus market with Silicon Labs' Si10xx wireless microcontroller technology to simplify the deployment of ultra-low-power, high-performance, pre-certified wireless M-Bus modules for smart meters.

Silicon Laboratories has announced a new line of C8051F5xx automotive-qualified microcontrollers (MCUs) that enable a dramatic reduction in system cost and footprint in body electronics applications. The highly integrated C8051F5xx family eliminates the need for discrete analog components and offers industry-leading throughput, reducing code size and further lowering system cost. The new pin- and software-compatible 8-bit devices are ideal for co...

Silicon Labs today announced its next-generation infrared (IR) and ambient light sensors for human interface (HI) applications. The new Si114x family, the latest addition to Silicon Labs’ QuickSense HI portfolio, features the industry’s most sensitive, power-efficient and longest range proximity sensors. Available in a tiny 2 mm x 2 mm package, the Si114x sensors enable sophisticated proximity sensing and touchless interfaces for handsets, ...

Addressing the embedded market demand for smart interface and connectivity solutions, Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, will highlight its latest semiconductor innovations at Embedded World 2011 in Nuremburg, Germany, Mar. 1-3 at Stand 12-136.

Silicon Laboratories has been named Fabless Semiconductor Supplier of the Year at the annual Elektra Awards 2010, announced at The Lancaster Hotel in London on Dec. 9. The Elektra Awards, founded by Electronics Weekly magazine, recognize the achievements of individuals and companies in the electronics industry. The Elektra Fabless Semiconductor Supplier of the Year Award is bestowed upon a company that has demonstrated significant commercial succ...

Silicon Laboratories Inc., a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today introduced the industry's most frequency flexible in-circuit programmable CMOS clock generators.

Silicon Laboratories Inc today introduced the industry's most highly integrated car radio tuner IC family, incorporating the entire radio tuner solution from antenna input to audio output in a single CMOS IC and enabling the lowest system cost for the mid-range automotive radio market. Silicon Labs' new automotive-grade Si475x AM/FM receiver family provides unrivaled performance for cost-sensitive automotive radio designs in the high-growth Brazi...

Silicon Labs introduced a family of isolated gate drivers designed for high-power Class D audio systems with output power ranging from 30 Watts to 1,000 Watts. The new Si824x Class D audio driver family provides exceptional high-fidelity performance, robust noise tolerance and precise dead-time control for a wide range of digital audio applications such as home entertainment systems, powered speakers, guitar amplifiers, public address and outdoor...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today introduced the Si348x family of power management ICs, enabling reduced system cost and improved efficiency in power over Ethernet (PoE) power sourcing equipment (PSE). Complementing Silicon Labs' popular Si3452 PSE controllers, the new PoE power management ICs provide an easy-to-use, energy-efficient and small-footprint solution for streamlining power delivery in managed and unmanaged switches and routers, iPBXs, I...

Silicon Laboratories today announced the acquisition of Ireland-based ChipSensors Limited, an early stage technology company creating innovative single-chip CMOS sensors designed to detect temperature, humidity and gases. ChipSensors' technology complements Silicon Labs' touch, proximity sensing and recently acquired MEMS technology, expanding the company's capabilities in CMOS-based sensors.

Silicon Labs will demonstrate innovative semiconductor solutions for the wireless, embedded and consumer electronics markets at electronica 2010 from Nov. 9 - 12 in Munich, Germany. Visit Silicon Labs' booth A4.361 to see hands-on demonstrations of the latest proximity and touch sensing, sub-GHz wireless, timing, embedded control and connectivity, and consumer audio technologies, all designed from the ground up to reduce the cost, power and compl...

Silicon Labs today introduced a universal serial bus (USB) touch screen bridge IC that streamlines the connection between touch controllers and host CPUs in computing systems with large displays. Silicon Labs' new CP2501 USB touch screen bridge provides a programmable, easy-to-use USB interface for laptops, tablets, eBooks, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), kiosks, ATMs and other point-of-sale (POS) equipment with touch screen displays.

Silicon Labs introduced a web-based library of schematic symbols and printed-circuit board (PCB) footprints to help developers designing with Silicon Labs' embedded mixed-signal products streamline application development and accelerate time to market. The online symbol library supports Silicon Labs' latest microcontrollers (MCUs) including the Si10xx wireless MCU family, ultra-low-power F99x/F98x devices and capacitive touch-sense MCUs; USB, Eth...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced that it has partnered with Beceem Communications to deliver a voice over IP (VoIP) broadband gateway reference design for 4G-WiMAX service providers. The WiMAX VoIP gateway reference design is based on Beceem's recently introduced BCS5350 single-chip WiMAX customer premises equipment (CPE) solution. It also incorporates Silicon Labs' Si32176 ProSLIC devices to provide the interface that enables the use of...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), une société leader dans les circuits intégrés signaux mixtes de hautes performances avec forte densité analogique, introduit ce jour une solution intégrée EZRadio® sans fil, conçue afin de réduire le coût et la complexité des liaisons unidirectionnelles sans fil dans une vaste gamme d'applications pour le grand public, l'industriel et l'automobile. Le nouveau transmetteur RF Si4010 du type sys...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today introduced an EZRadio® wireless IC solution designed to reduce the cost and complexity of one-way wireless links used in a wide range of consumer, industrial and automotive systems. The new Si4010 system-on-chip (SoC) RF transmitter enables developers to optimize remote keyless entry (RKE), garage door opener, remote control, buildin...