AUSTIN, Texas, Feb 01, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- To help drive the next breakthroughs in smart home, smart metering,
human interface and AM/FM radio designs, Silicon
Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance,
analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, will showcase its latest embedded
mixed-signal and broadcast technologies at the International IC-China
Conference & Exhibition (IIC-China, Booth 2C11) in Shenzhen, Mar. 4-5.
Silicon Labs will demonstrate a wide range of innovative embedded
technologies and solutions through hands-on demonstrations of
touch-sense and touchless human interfaces, embedded wireless
connectivity, ultra-low-power microcontrollers and digital AM/FM radio
technology. The company also will present a technical seminar,
"Proximity Sensing Using Active Infrared Sensors," on Mar. 4 (2:30-3:20
p.m. in Room 314) and on Mar. 5 (2:30-3:20 p.m. in room 315).
"As market demand for products that make our homes smarter, more energy
efficient and secure continues to surge, Silicon Labs is leveraging its
wealth of patented mixed-signal technologies to help embedded developers
innovate in these critical application areas," said Mark Thompson, vice
president of Embedded Mixed-Signal products at Silicon Laboratories. "We
offer an array of silicon and software solutions to help enable the next
wave of smart home and smart metering innovations, and IIC-China is an
ideal venue to showcase our technologies."
Try your hand at the following Silicon Labs product and technology
demonstrations and easy-to-use design tools at Booth 2C11 at IIC-China:
-
Test your skill in conserving precious fuel as you attempt a flawless
lunar landing with a creative proximity sensing application demo based
on Silicon Labs' QuickSense(TM)
Si1120
infrared sensors and C8051F800
touch-sense microcontrollers (MCUs). This hands-on demo uses two IrSliderEK
touchless slider boards as the controls to the classic 1979
Atari Lunar Lander video arcade game.
-
Get your human interface applications up and running quickly with
Silicon Labs' developer-friendly QuickSense
Studio. This easy-to-use yet powerful development environment
demonstrates how to create buttons, sliders and other HI elements to
realize advanced touch-sense and touchless human interfaces.
-
Experience the unlimited potential of Silicon Labs' QuickSense
human interface solutions. We offer a wealth of easy-to-use hardware
development tools and reference designs to support your next home
automation, metering, security and consumer electronics application
based on the industry's lowest power and most responsive proximity
sensing and capacitive touch-sense solutions.
-
Get up to speed with wireless M-Bus (EN 13757-4), a new standard for
remote reading of water, gas and heat meters. Silicon Labs is
showcasing a fully compliant wireless M-Bus stack with network traffic
monitor that demonstrates low-power operation, maximum range and
optimal frequency tolerance.
-
Reduce your embedded system power requirements by using Silicon Labs'
ultra-low-power C8051F91x/0x
microcontrollers, the industry's lowest power MCUs with sleep mode
current as low as 10 nanoamps. See how fast and easy it is to develop
your next embedded application with our C8051F912DK
development kit, simple-to-use ToolStick
kits, battery
estimator, selector guides and app notes.
-
Develop an ultra-low-power transceiver application in hours instead of
days with Silicon Labs' RF-to-USB
reference design. This sophisticated embedded wireless demo
highlights a multi-node RF network using a single AAA alkaline
battery, MCU-based transmitters and RF-to-USB receivers - ideal for a
wide range of power-sensitive wireless applications for home
automation, security and personal medical devices.
-
Check out Silicon Labs' latest wireless
development suite (WDS) software for our EZRadioPRO(R)
wireless products. The new version of our WDS software integrates
application examples that highlight the industry-leading performance
and low-power capabilities of EZRadioPRO for remote keyless entry
(RKE), wireless home security and networking applications.
-
Learn how to design an AM/FM radio quickly, easily and economically.
This innovative demo based on Silicon Labs' latest AM/FM
receiver technology will show you how to get to market quickly
with an easy-to-manufacture, turnkey radio design.
To learn more about Silicon Labs' broadcast, ultra-low-power MCU, human
interface, wireless products and technologies, visit (respectively) www.silabs.com/pr/broadcast,
www.silabs.com/pr/lowpower,
www.silabs.com/pr/quicksense
and www.silabs.com/pr/wireless.
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Silicon Laboratories is an industry leader in the innovation of
high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Developed by a
world-class engineering team with unsurpassed expertise in mixed-signal
design, Silicon Labs' diverse portfolio of highly-integrated,
easy-to-use products offers customers significant advantages in
performance, size and power consumption. These patented solutions serve
a broad set of markets and applications including consumer,
communications, computing, industrial and automotive.
Headquartered in Austin, TX, Silicon Labs is a global enterprise with
operations, sales and design activities worldwide. The company is
committed to contributing to our customers' success by recruiting the
highest quality talent to create industry-changing innovations. For more
information about Silicon Labs, please visit www.silabs.com.
Cautionary Language
This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on
Silicon Laboratories' current expectations. These forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important
factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in
the forward-looking statements. For a discussion of factors that could
impact Silicon Laboratories' financial results and cause actual results
to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements,
please refer to Silicon Laboratories' filings with the SEC. Silicon
Laboratories disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise
any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
Note to editors: Silicon Laboratories, Silicon Labs, the "S" symbol, the
Silicon Laboratories logo, QuickSense, EZRadioPRO and the Silicon Labs
logo are trademarks of Silicon Laboratories Inc. All other product names
noted herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.
SOURCE: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Dale Weisman +1-512-532-5871
dale.weisman@silabs.com
Copyright Business Wire 2010