Microcontrollers sip electrons; target smart-meter, monitoring, and medical apps

摘要

Anew group of microcontrollers from Silicon Labs decreases power consumption for battery-operated wired and wireless embedded systems. The C8051 F96x microcontroller and Si102x and Si103x wireless microcontrollers offer approximately 65% more runtime than competing approaches. The wireless version of the basic microcontroller adds the company's less-than-1-GHz EZRadioPro transceiver to the single-chip design, supporting a range of frequencies and formats. Basic operation of the device requires less than 300 nA at 3.6V.