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Silicon Laboratories Delivers Easy-to-Use ZigBee(TM) Development Kits for Short Range Wireless Market; Industry Compliant Development Platform Speeds Time to Market

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 09:00 CDT

Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq:SLAB) today announced the availability of its ZigBee(TM) development kit at the ZigBee Alliance Open House in Chicago. Silicon Laboratories' ZigBee development kit provides the optimal industry-compliant development platform allowing customers to easily develop ZigBee network applications for wireless automation, industrial, medical and residential monitoring and control applications.

The 2.4 GHz ZigBee development kit provides all of the hardware and software needed for a customer to immediately begin developing a ZigBee network solution. Silicon Laboratories' ZigBee development kit provides six development boards with antennas, a power supply, cabling software and documentation. Pre-loaded with an easy-to-use demonstration GUI, the kit provides a graphical representation of 13 typical ZigBee topologies and supports three demo applications to monitor data from any of the networked devices. The development kit also includes a full set of application development software and tools, including the Silicon Laboratories' IDE, an 802.15.4 MAC and ZigBee network layer protocol stack library.

"Silicon Laboratories' new development kit allows customers to focus on application development rather than hardware selection and integration," said Derrell Coker, vice president of Silicon Laboratories. "Our ZigBee development kits are complemented by our full-featured MCUs and easy-to-use modules, co-developed with software provider Helicomm, resulting in a comprehensive solution suite that speeds time-to-market for customers developing products for the short range wireless market."

Silicon Laboratories' family of ZigBee-ready solutions leverages the company's leading 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) products, which combine high-precision analog peripherals with a low-current consumption, high-throughput (up to 100 MIPS) 8051 CPU and up to 128 kB on-chip Flash memory.

Silicon Laboratories and ZigBee protocol stack provider Helicomm have also co-developed a family of ZigBee-ready turnkey modules that includes an optimized Silicon Laboratories' 8051-based MCU, an 802.15.4 compliant radio and the applicable MAC and ZigBee protocol software offering high performance, ultra low power and highly-integrated solutions.

Pricing and Availability

Silicon Laboratories' ZigBee development kit includes six development boards with antennas, a power supply, cabling, software and documentation. The development kit is available now for $950 and can be purchased online at www.silabs.com/ZigBee.

Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. is a leading designer of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for a broad range of applications. Silicon Laboratories' diverse portfolio of highly integrated, patented solutions is developed by a world-class engineering team with decades of cumulative expertise in cutting-edge mixed-signal design. The company has design, engineering, marketing, sales and applications offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Silicon Laboratories please visit www.silabs.com.

Cautionary Language

This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on Silicon Laboratories' current expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Silicon Laboratories believes that it is important to communicate the company's future expectations to investors. However, there may be events in the future that Silicon Laboratories is not able to accurately predict or control. For a discussion of these and other factors that could impact Silicon Laboratories' financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, please refer to Silicon Laboratories' recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-KA filed April 25, 2005 and the 10-Q filed July 22, 2005.

Note to editors: Silicon Laboratories and the Silicon Laboratories logo are trademarks of Silicon Laboratories Inc. All other product names noted herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.

Source: Business Wire

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