Silicon Labs ARM® Cortex®-M0+ Microcontrollers

Featuring ultra-low power consumption of down to 131µA/MHz, and a shutoff mode current of 20nA, the Zero Gecko and Happy Gecko series of microcontrollers are ideal for battery-powered applications in IoT, wearable electronics, wireless sensor and consumer applications.

And it isn't just in the low-power modes where these devices score; features such as autonomous sensor monitoring allow the microcontrollers to collect data all whilst the microcontroller is in deep sleep mode. Inductive and capacitive sensing also enable interesting and modern human machine interfaces (HMI), whilst fast wake up times from deep sleep modes ensure that algorithms are quickly activated to process data using the lowest amount of energy possible. As a result, these devices are suitable for portable and wearable applications to deliver excellent battery life.

iSYSTEM's BlueBox On-Chip Analyzers compliment the Gecko family with their IOM Accessories, available for a range of BlueBox products. To power optimize your application our power measurement board, coupled with the analog front-end of the IOM2 or IOM5, enables the developer to see at what point in the application's execution the current consumption exceeds the desired level.

Finally, you'll always have confidence in the code you have developed by utilizing testIDEA. By utilizing the Micro Trace Buffer, available on most devices, it is possible to capture program trace information to deliver code coverage on unit tests for your application code.

CoreSight™ Feature Description Zero Gecko Happy Gecko Starter Kit
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iC5000 iC5700
DWT (Data Watchpoint and Trace) Hardware comparators for program counter
and data watchpoints
FPB (Flash Patch Breakpoint) Implements hardware breakpoints
MTB (Micro Trace Buffer) Reserves SRAM to store trace information on-chip
SWD (Serial Wire Debug) Two-wire CoreSight™ interface used for debugging
and debug configuration.

 

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Supported Mcus

EFM32HG, EFM32ZG