Overcoming existing limits of integration density, performance, and energy efficiency

Silicon Labs announced that it is further expanding its energy-friendly EFM32® Gecko family by launching a powerful new MCU with superior performance, more features, and lower power consumption.

The EFM32GG11 Giant Gecko MCU family offers the best performance among low-power MCUs introduced to the market to date for smart meters, asset tracking, industrial/building automation, wearable, and personal medical device applications.

The Giant Gecko MCU combines processing performance of up to 72 MHz, large memory options, peripherals and hardware accelerators, and comprehensive software tools including the industry-leading Micrium OS.

As the complexity of Internet of Things (IoT) applications intensifies, the need to utilize various sensors, sophisticated end-user displays, state-of-the-art algorithms, and wireless stacks is growing proportionally. On the other hand, with power budgets becoming increasingly tight, MCUs face the challenge of minimizing power consumption in sleep mode to maximize battery life. The Giant Gecko MCU solves these challenges by taking existing limits of integration, performance, and energy efficiency to the next level.

Tom Pannell, Senior Director of IoT Product Marketing at Silicon Labs, stated, “The Giant Gecko MCU provides a superior user experience that was previously only found in MCUs that consumed more power,” and added, “The Giant Gecko family, which has achieved the best performance among Gecko MCUs that have steadily evolved over the past decade, represents a tremendous leap forward in performance, characteristics, and design capabilities.”