Silicon Labs and Tuya Smart have added support for the SiWx917 wireless system-on-chip (SoC) in TuyaOpen, giving connected-device developers a low-power Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE hardware option.
The integration is available through Tuya's open-source repositories and includes support for the Silicon Labs BRD2605A SiWx917 Development Kit and the Sekorm SiWx917 AI Development Kit. Tuya says the boards provide hardware for prototyping and evaluating applications using the SDK.
Key features of the SiWx917 include Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE connectivity; an Arm Cortex-M4 application processor; hardware-based security; and power management. Its integrated architecture can help developers reduce the number of components needed for wireless connectivity and application processing.
TuyaOpen provides a C/C++ software framework and a hardware abstraction layer designed to separate application code from chip-specific functions. The associated IDE combines project setup, compilation, device programming and serial log debugging, and offers natural-language assistance for generating and adapting application code. Availability of individual IDE and AI functions may depend on the selected workflow and platform configuration.
Irvind Ghai, vice president of Wi-Fi at Silicon Labs, said: "SiWx917 combines low-power multi-protocol wireless connectivity, application processing and hardware-based security in a single chip. Support in TuyaOpen makes those capabilities available to developers building products for the Tuya ecosystem."
The TuyaOpen SDK and SiWx917 platform integration are available through the TuyaOpen SDK repository at https://github.com/tuya/TuyaOpen and the SiWx917 platform integration repository at https://github.com/tuya/TuyaOpen-SiliconLabs. Documentation and development resources are also available through the TuyaOpen IDE at https://tuyaopen.ai/tuyaopen-ide. Sekorm will provide availability and ordering information for its SiWx917 AI Development Kit.
