Silicon Labs has expanded its EFM32 Gecko portfolio with new industrial-strength microcontrollers. The EFM32GG11 Giant Gecko MCU family is suitable for smart metering, asset tracking, industrial/building automation, wearables and personal medical applications.
The Giant Gecko family is based on ARM Cortex-M4 processor core and up to 2 MB flash and 512 KB RAM. The power consumption is 77 μA/MHz in active mode and 1,6 μA in deep sleep mode and the MCUs integrate a wealth of communication interfaces and controllers: 10/100 Ethernet media access control (MAC), secure digital input output (SDIO) Wi-Fi interface, single or dual CAN bus controllers, thin film transistor (TFT) display hardware acceleration and a current-based capacitive sense engine.
Giant Gecko MCUs are available in a wide range of QFN, QFP and BGA package options with up to 192 pins, including many packages that are footprint-compatible with existing EFM32 MCUs. Software compatibility across the entire EFM32 MCU and EFR32 Wireless Gecko SoC portfolio enables broad software reuse and reduced design time and cost for developers.
Engineering samples of the EFM32GG11 Giant Gecko MCUs are available today, and production quantities are planned for Q1 2018.