SoCs deliver energy-efficient and secure performance

13-05-2020 | Mouser Electronics | Semiconductors

Mouser now stocks the latest Wireless Gecko SoC families from Silicon Labs. The new SoCs are highly energy-efficient, producing exceptional battery life for a range of IoT applications.

The Silicon Labs EFR32BG22 (BG22) SoCs are single-chip solutions supporting Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, including Bluetooth Mesh, Bluetooth Low Energy, and direction-finding with sub-metre accuracy. These versatile SoCs can extend coin cell battery life for up to ten years, offering an energy-friendly choice for the commercial, consumer, and industrial IoT applications. The SoCs are based on a high-performance Arm Cortex-M33 core and provide ultra-low transmit and receive power.

The EFR32MG22 (MG22) family devices provide the smallest, lowest power SoCs optimised for Zigbee Green Power applications. Coupling a 76.8MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core with a high-performance 2.4GHz radio, these SoCs support multiple IoT protocols. The energy-efficient SoCs are an excellent choice for Zigbee devices powered by coin cell batteries or energy-harvesting sources, incorporating smart home sensors, lighting controls, and building and industrial automation.

The EFR32FG22 (FG22) SoCs allow energy-friendly proprietary protocol networking in power and size-constrained IoT devices. The single-die devices provide a 38.4MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor and a 2.4GHz radio with a receive sensitivity of -106.4dBm. These SoCs possess advanced security features and a complete suite of software tools and stacks, making them an excellent option for applications such as building security, industrial automation sensors, electronic shelf labels, and custom modules for commercial lighting.

By Natasha Shek