I still think of Silicon Labs as go-to people for really well integrated very competitively low power SoC with wireless.
Is that true? Are they still very competitive for low power? I feel like STm has been raising the bar a lot, and I'm not sure if SiLabs has stayed competitive, and this was always 3rd hand here say anyways. What do folks think?
They have been doing pretty ok but recently seem to have stepped up their Zephyr game; very smart very well connected IoT software to focus on. The HAL has been around but they recently launched their own Zephyr sdk. I have mixed feelings about vendor dependency & that being a bad thing in some ways for users, but it seems like a popular route &b helpful for getting people going. https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/hal_silabshttps://www.silabs.com/blog/introducing-silicon-labs-simplic...
I'm still reeling at how very much chip consolidation the world's gone through. The 201X's were just such a constant stream of buy outs, of so many amazing companies getting bought & brought in to such huge giant chip companies. Silicon Labs has been a real one, amazingly early & strong at wireless. I salute ya'll. Thanks for the chips.
(Side note, I was very surprised to see Keith Packard's name on the top commit to the hal!! My confidence soars if they hired a (Uber) mensch such as Keith to improve their library offerings. Oh, wildcat fix, fixing some new gcc 14.3 complaining; what a good guy.)
I still think of Silicon Labs as go-to people for really well integrated very competitively low power SoC with wireless.
Is that true? Are they still very competitive for low power? I feel like STm has been raising the bar a lot, and I'm not sure if SiLabs has stayed competitive, and this was always 3rd hand here say anyways. What do folks think?
They have been doing pretty ok but recently seem to have stepped up their Zephyr game; very smart very well connected IoT software to focus on. The HAL has been around but they recently launched their own Zephyr sdk. I have mixed feelings about vendor dependency & that being a bad thing in some ways for users, but it seems like a popular route &b helpful for getting people going. https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/hal_silabs https://www.silabs.com/blog/introducing-silicon-labs-simplic...
I'm still reeling at how very much chip consolidation the world's gone through. The 201X's were just such a constant stream of buy outs, of so many amazing companies getting bought & brought in to such huge giant chip companies. Silicon Labs has been a real one, amazingly early & strong at wireless. I salute ya'll. Thanks for the chips.
(Side note, I was very surprised to see Keith Packard's name on the top commit to the hal!! My confidence soars if they hired a (Uber) mensch such as Keith to improve their library offerings. Oh, wildcat fix, fixing some new gcc 14.3 complaining; what a good guy.)