Silicon Labs

Silicon Labs is a leading provider of silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world. Our award-winning technologies and engineering teams are shaping the future of the IoT, Internet infrastructure, industrial automation, consumer and automotive markets.

Silicon Labs has a long track record of delivering multiple industry firsts, and transforming and disrupting large markets. Leveraging our strengths in mixed-signal design, RF in CMOS technology and software, we deliver products and solutions that help customers reduce cost, complexity, component count and time to market.

Silicon Labs

Silicon Labs is a leading provider of silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world. Our award-winning technologies are shaping the future of the Internet of Things, Internet infrastructure, industrial automation, consumer and automotive markets. Our engineering teams create products focused on performance, energy savings, connectivity and simplicity.

Founded in 1996, Silicon Labs has 1500 employees and more than 15 locations worldwide including its global headquarters in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Labs International in Singapore. Silicon Labs has a long track record of delivering multiple industry firsts, and transforming and disrupting large markets. Leveraging our strengths in mixed-signal design, RF in CMOS technology and software, we deliver products and solutions that help customers reduce cost, complexity, component count and time to market.


Silicon Labs’ semiconductor and software solutions are designed into a wide range of IoT (smart home, lighting, security, personal medical, smart energy and industrial IoT), Internet infrastructure (core networking, telecom and data center equipment), industrial automation, green energy, automotive radio and consumer broadcast products. Silicon Labs helps developers simplify IoT product design with Simplicity Studio™ software tools, Micrium RTOS, wireless stacks, development kits and reference designs.

Company Areas:

  • Wireless connectivity for IoT (SoCs, modules, software)
  • Bluetooth
  • 802.15.4 mesh networking (Zigbee/Thread)
  • Wi-Fi
  • Z-Wave
  • Proprietary protocols in sub-GHz band
  • 32-bit and 8-bt MCUs
  • Optical and environmental sensors
  • Digital isolators
  • Clocks and oscillators


Ian Poole   Written by Ian Poole .
  Experienced electronics engineer and author.