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Silicon Labs And Vitesse Announce POE+ Reference Designs For Energy Efficient PSE Switches
Silicon Laboratories and Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation today announced the availability of multiple reference designs to enable easy upgrades for Vitesse-based Gigabit Ethernet switches to support the recently ratified IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet (PoE+) standard. Two new reference designs combine Silicon Laboratories' highly integrated, energy-efficient PoE Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) controllers and the Vitesse E-StaX and SparX Giga...
Silicon Labs Expands Family Of Automotive-Qualified Microcontrollers
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 Introduces High-Performance Touch Sense Microcontrollers
The new C8051F800 microcontroller (MCU) family is said to offer the industry's fastest capacitive touch sense capability. Leveraging Silicon Labs' patent-pending sensing technology, the F800 family enables developers to add sophisticated touch sense interfaces to a wide range of consumer and industrial electronics products such as set-top boxes, residential light controls, thermostat controls, home security panels, commercial point-of-sale (POS) ...
Silicon Labs Enters Human Interface Market With Suite Of Sensing Solutions
Silicon Laboratories has announced its entry into the human interface market with the introduction of the QuickSense portfolio of highly accurate and fast-response touch, proximity and ambient light sense devices supported by a common development environment. Ideal for portable, consumer and industrial electronics products, the power-saving QuickSense devices enable a complete, elegant human interface.
Silicon Labs - FastInfrared Sensing ICs For Human Interface Applications
Silicon Laboratories has announced its entry into the human interface market with the introduction of the QuickSense portfolio, including the Si1102 proximity sensor and the Si1120 proximity and ambient light sensor, the industry's fastest infrared sensing solutions. Optimized for power efficiency, the Si1102 and Si1120 enable touchless human interface sensing and superior detection range. Ideal for a wide variety of sensing applications, the Si1...
Silicon Labs - 1-200 MHz CMOS Clock Generator
Silicon Laboratories has introduced the expansion of its Any-Rate Clock Generator family with the Si5355/56. The Si535x devices are made to order, 8-output CMOS clock generators capable of synthesizing four unique, non-integer related frequencies from 1-200 MHz. The Si535x clock generators provide guaranteed 0 ppm frequency synthesis error for any combination of frequencies, enabling the replacement of multiple clock ICs and crystal oscillators...
Silicon Labs - Lowest Jitter Clock Generator for Broadcast Video Applications
Silicon Laboratories has introduced the expansion of its Any-Rate Precision Clock family with the Si5324, the industry's lowest jitter, most highly integrated clock IC optimized for professional broadcast video applications. The Si5324 replaces traditional multi-component video PLL solutions with a single clock IC while providing 80 percent lower jitter than competing solutions.
Silicon Labs - High Performance Single-Chip Hybrid TV Tuner
Silicon Laboratories has announced the Si2170, a complete, globally-compliant hybrid TV tuner with analog TV demodulator in a single CMOS IC. Leveraging Silicon Labs’ proven digital low-IF architecture, the Si2170 is the industry’s first silicon TV tuner to exceed the performance of traditional discrete TV tuners, enabling TV makers to deliver improved picture quality and better reception for both analog and digital broadcasts.
Silicon Labs - Single Channel Telephony IC
Silicon Laboratories claims the industry’s highest performance, highest integration and lowest power family of single-channel foreign exchange station (FXS) solutions. The Si3217x ProSLIC family is the first to integrate everything needed for an FXS interface into a single package, reducing board area by 50 percent without compromising the performance and diagnostic capabilities typical of traditional telephony service.
High Performance MCU in Only 2x2 Mm2 from Silicon Labs
Silicon Laboratories has announced the expansion of its best-in-class small form factor microcontrollers (MCUs) with the C8051T606 low cost 8-bit mixed-signal MCU. The world’s smallest MCU, the C8051T606 provides a high degree of functional density for programmable embedded systems in a tiny 2x2 mm2 footprint. The high-performance CPU enables greater design flexibility, and the integration of a voltage monitor and precision oscillator make the...
Silicon Labs Introduces More Than 70 Low Power High Performance Digital Isolators
Silicon Laboratories has introduced the Si84xx ISOpro digital isolator family, said to be the industry’s first to support as many as six unidirectional isolation channels capable of data rates up to 150 Mbps. Offering space-efficient packaging options, a choice of isolation ratings up to 2.5 kVRMS and the industry’s most highly integrated I2C isolators, the ISOpro family delivers unsurpassed system design flexibility for use in applications s...
Silicon Labs Expands MCU Portfolio With High Pin-Count, Touch-Sensing Device
Silicon Laboratories has announced the introduction of its C8051F7xx family of high pin-count MCUs for cost-sensitive, high I/O embedded systems. This family is the first to offer a new, patent-pending touch sensing feature that is robust, accurate, responsive and easy to configure.
Silicon Labs Claims Highest Performance Embedded Wireless Solution
Silicon Laboratories has announced a high performance embedded wireless solution, the EZRadioPRO family and C8051F9xx series low-power MCU. The EZRadioPRO embedded wireless radio family delivers the highest single-chip output power (up to +20 dBm) and industry leading sensitivity (-118 dBm), providing a best-in-class link budget that substantially increases communication range while minimizing power consumption.
Silicon Labs Claims Highest Performance Embedded Wireless Solution
Silicon Laboratories has announced a high performance embedded wireless solution, the EZRadioPRO family and C8051F9xx series low-power MCU. The EZRadioPRO embedded wireless radio family delivers the highest single-chip output power (up to +20 dBm) and industry leading sensitivity (-118 dBm), providing a best-in-class link budget that substantially increases communication range while minimizing power consumption.
Silicon Laboratories To Showcase Power Efficient Embedded Wireless Design At Embedded World Germany
At Embedded World 2009 in Nuremburg, Silicon Laboratories will showcase its power-efficient embedded wireless design based on its EZRadioPRO technology. Silicon Labs will demonstrate innovative design techniques through live product and hands-on demonstrations for a range of consumer and industrial monitoring and control requiring power efficiency with special emphasis on extending battery life and improving performance.
Silicon Laboratories To Showcase Power Efficient Embedded Wireless Design At Embedded World Germany
At Embedded World 2009 in Nuremburg, Silicon Laboratories will showcase its power-efficient embedded wireless design based on its EZRadioPRO technology. Silicon Labs will demonstrate innovative design techniques through live product and hands-on demonstrations for a range of consumer and industrial monitoring and control requiring power efficiency with special emphasis on extending battery life and improving performance.
Silicon Labs Introduces High Performance Synchronous Ethernet Clock IC
Silicon Laboratories has introduced the Si5315, a jitter-attenuating clock multiplier IC that meets or exceeds the performance, integration, frequency and jitter requirements for the 1G and 10G Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) market. The Si5315 is the industry’s only SyncE clock multiplier IC to support 10G line encoding rates (161.13 MHz) in addition to SONET/SDH and Ethernet frequencies.
Silicon Labs Introduces Any-Rate, Any-Output Clock Generator
Silicon Laboratories has introduced a family of clock generators and buffers that provide the most frequency flexibility in the industry. Based on Silicon Labs’ breakthrough MultiSynth technology, the Si5338 is capable of synthesizing any frequency from 0.16 to 350 MHz and select frequencies to 700 MHz on each of the device’s four differential outputs, dramatically simplifying timing architectures by replacing four discrete phase-locked loop...
Silicon Labs Introduces Fully-Integrated Automotive AM/FM radio receiver IC
Silicon Laboratories has announced the Si474x, what is said to be the industry’s smallest, most fully-integrated automotive AM/FM radio receiver IC. Based on Silicon Labs’ proven digital low-IF architecture, the Si474x family is the first automotive AM/FM receiver to be implemented in CMOS, meeting demanding automotive-grade radio performance requirements while saving cost and reducing customers’ time to market. The Si474x family supports w...
electronica 2008 - Silicon Laboratories - EZRadio
At Electronica 2008, Silicon Laboratories Inc. will exhibit several innovative IC solutions for the wireless, automotive and consumer markets. During the exhibition from November 11 through 14 in Munich, Germany, Silicon Laboratories will showcase its short-range wireless, broadcast and MCU solutions for a wide variety of applications including mobile handsets, modems, MP3 players, set top boxes, voice over IP (VoIP) phones and wireless access p...