Combining great style and high functionality is not easy. User interface affects the success of consumer products.

Situation
A leading smart home accessory provider desired a sleek, user-friendly interface for their wireless motion-detecting security camera. They also wanted sleep/wake power mode capabilities to preserve battery life and protect privacy. Mechanical switches can be large and are prone to failure.
Capacitive touch can eliminate this, but can impact battery life. Silicon Labs has a better solution.

Solution
The EFM8TM Sleepy Bee MCU with capacitive sense touch controller was the answer for this application. In addition to lower power consumption and sophisticated touch sensing technology, the Sleepy Bee provided wake-on-touch capability so most of the system can stay in low-power sleep mode while the energy-friendly Sleepy Bee monitors touch events.

Benefit
The smart home accessory provider launched their product with a modern, responsive touch interface. The Sleepy Bee touch sensor caused no burden on the battery, which meant a longer-lasting battery life. By eliminating the need for mechanical control buttons, a sleek form is possible, while also making room for other features, such as larger on-board memory.

Getting new features to market quickly can make or break a company. Don’t reinvent the wheel every time your product improves.

Situation
A leading personal fitness brand produced a popular wearable-style activity monitor. They needed to bring new features to market quickly, without having to start from scratch for every project. Their challenge was to select a flexible and scalable MCU family that protects their software investment and operates at low power.

Solution
Our customer selected the EFM32TM microcontroller, because of its processor core’s scalable range of memory options. Software for one EFM32™ family member runs across the other members, protecting their software engineering investment.
With the highly flexible EFM32™ microcontroller family, they selected just the right MCU device for their technical and budgetary needs.

Benefit
Our customer successfully launched their first product using the EFM32™ and received great consumer reviews. With no time to waste, they followed up with new features and enhanced performance.
Time-to-market for their new features was greatly improved since the EFM32™ MCU gave them a path to true software reuse.