Bluetooth Low Energy Kits & Boards
Whether you are developing IoT applications for smart homes, consumers, industries, commercial, or medical, Silicon Labs’ complete Bluetooth portfolio has your entire product life-cycle covered – including the hardware, software, security, development, and maintenance.
Our broad range of Bluetooth SoCs and modules provides an optimal solution for all IoT needs. The SDK with the latest software features and our single-stack approach enables you to build epic IoT solutions fast! The Simplicity Studio, our intuitive, unified development environment, provides you with the most valuable dev toolbox – free of charge.
Silicon Labs secures your Bluetooth in all levels – the hardware, software, and stack – to protect your customers’ privacy and your brand. You can manage your installed base efficiently and securely, over-the-air, throughout the product life-cycle!?
Devices
Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth Mesh
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| BLE Stack | Mesh Support | Output Family Max (dBm) | CPU Core | GPIO | Flash (kB) | RAM (kB) | Security | |
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FEATURED
Wireless Xpress BGX220
Wireless Xpress BGX220
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5 5.1 5.2 | 8 | ARM Cortex-M33 | 8 | ||||
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EFR32BG22 Series 2 SoCs
Bluetooth Low Energy EFR32BG22 SoCs (Series 2)
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5 5.1 5.2 | 6 | ARM Cortex-M33 | 352, 512 | 32 | AES-128 AES-256 ECC SHA-1 SHA-2 | ||
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EFR32BG22 Series 2 Modules
EFR32BG22 Series 2 Modules
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5 5.1 5.2 | 8 | ARM Cortex-M33 | 352, 512 | 32 | AES-128 AES-256 ECC SHA-1 SHA-2 | ||
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EFR32BG21 Series 2 SoCs
Bluetooth Low Energy EFR32BG21 SoCs (Series 2)
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5 5.1 | 20 | ARM Cortex-M33 | 512, 768, 1024 | 64, 96 | AES-128 AES-256 ECC SHA-1 SHA-2 | ||
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EFR32BG21 Series 2 Modules
Bluetooth Low Energy EFR32BG21 Modules (Series 2)
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5 5.1 | 20 | ARM Cortex-M33 | 12, 20 | 1024 | 96 | ||
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EFR32BG13 Series 1 SoCs
Bluetooth Low Energy EFR32BG13 SoCs (Series 1)
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5 5.1 | 19 | ARM Cortex-M4 | 512 | 64 | AES-128 AES-256 ECC SHA-1 SHA-2 | ||
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EFR32BG13 Series 1 Modules
Bluetooth Low Energy EFR32BG13 Modules (Series 1)
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5 5.1 | 19 | ARM Cortex-M4 | 25, 32 | 512 | 64 | ||
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EFR32BG12 Series 1 SoCs
Bluetooth Low Energy EFR32BG12 SoCs (Series 1)
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5 | 10 | ARM Cortex-M4 | 512, 1024 | 64, 128, 256 | AES-128 AES-256 ECC SHA-1 SHA-2 | ||
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EFR32BG1 Series 1 SoCs
Bluetooth Low Energy EFR32BG1 SoCs (Series 1)
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5 | 20 | ARM Cortex-M4 | 256 | 32 | AES-128 AES-256 ECC SHA-1 SHA-2 | ||
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EFR32BG1 Series 1?Modules
Bluetooth Low Energy EFR32BG1 Modules (Series 1)
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5.1 | 8 | ARM Cortex-M4 | 256 | 32 | |||
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Wireless Xpress BGX13
Bluetooth Low Energy Wireless Xpress BGX13
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5 5.1 | 8 | ARM Cortex-M4 | 8 | ||||
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Bluegiga Legacy Modules
Bluetooth Low Energy Bluegiga Legacy Modules
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4.x | 8 | 8051 | 1 | 128, 256 | 8 |
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Bluetooth Classic
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Bluegiga Legacy Modules
Bluetooth Classic Bluegiga Legacy Modules
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-86, -89, -90, -96 | +12 (BR/EDR) +8 (BLE), +17, +18, +3, +6.5, +8 | 100+ meters, 200-400 meter LoS range, 30 meters line-of-sight, 350 meters line-of-sight, 500+ meters line-of-sight, Up to 200 meters | 11.0x13.9x2.2, 13.05x9.30x2.1, 25.5 x 14.0 x 2.4, 35.55x14.50x3.65, 35.75x14.50x 2.6 |
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workshop series
Bluetooth Workshops: BG22 Project Series
Join us on the 3rd Tuesday of every month and learn new ways to integrate Bluetooth connectivity into your next project with the help of Silicon Labs expert engineers. Each project session will explore and solve challenges developers often face when building new Bluetooth designs.
Find the Right Bluetooth Device for your Use Case
Kits and Boards
Bluetooth Classic Kits & Boards
Software and Tools
Bluetooth Software Development
Bluetooth software from Silicon Labs makes it possible for developers to take advantage of Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth 5.1, Bluetooth 5.2, and Bluetooth mesh features. These features include 2M and LE Long Range PHYs, Advertisement sets, scan event reporting LE Secure Connections, LE Data Length Extensions, LE Dual Topology, and angle of arrival (AoA) and angle of departure (AoD). The Bluetooth software is also Apple HomeKit compliant supporting HomeKit Accessory Protocol and other Apple HomeKit features, making it suitable for Bluetooth enabled smart home accessory development. For Silicon Labs solutions pre-programmed with these software components, including a Bluetooth stack, LE secure connections, and Bluetooth 5 features, please take a look at Bluetooth Xpress.
The Silicon Labs Bluetooth SDK can be used to create standalone Bluetooth?applications for Wireless Gecko SoCs?or?modules?or alternatively network co-processor (NCP) applications. The Bluetooth SDK supports C-based application development with GCC or IAR compilers. In addition to developing and debugging applications, with the included ?Simplicity Studio?development environment, developers can take advantage of additional tools including ?Energy Profiler, Packet Trace and visual GATT editor.
| Bluetooth Low Energy SDK | Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Software Development Kit (SDK) helps designers develop Bluetooth LE, and Bluetooth 5 solutions for the IoT. | |
| Bluetooth Mesh SDK | Bluetooth Mesh Software Development Kit (SDK) helps designers develop Bluetooth mesh solutions for the IoT. | |
| Bluegiga Bluetooth Smart Software | Bluegiga Bluetooth Smart Software is a complete Bluetooth Smart software stack for Bluegiga Legacy Bluetooth Smart products. The software implements the Bluetooth Smart complete protocol layers, such as Attribute Protocol (ATT), Generic Attribute Profile (GATT), Generic Access Profile (GAP), Security Manager, and connection management. | |
| Bluegiga iWRAP Bluetooth Classic Software | The iWRAP is an embedded Bluetooth stack for Bluegiga Legacy Bluetooth classic modules. It exposes a powerful yet easy-to-use command interface to manage Bluetooth operations. |
Resources
Bluetooth Technical Library
Access to Data Sheets, App Notes, and more.
Bluetooth Training
Find all Bluetooth training resources
Bluetooth LE API Documentation
Find Bluetooth Low Energy API documentation
Bluetooth Xpress API Documentation
Find Bluetooth Xpress API documentation
Mobile Application Development
EFR Connect Mobile App
Bluetooth Mesh Mobile App
Bluetooth Xpress Mobile App
Learn About Bluetooth
overview
What is Bluetooth?
Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard managed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). Designed for data transfer and exchange over short distances, Bluetooth makes use of the unlicensed ISM band at 2.4 GHz. Bluetooth includes a number of capabilities that span point-to-point audio streaming to large scale many-to-many mesh networks for lighting or home automation.
Silicon Labs provides flexible, highly-integrated Bluetooth products that meet the most demanding requirements for a wide variety of applications. Silicon Labs engineered products for longevity and have best-in-class RF sensitivity and power consumption. In addition, Silicon Labs offers easy-to-use but powerful software solutions that can help make application development and integration a straightforward process.
Applications
Secure, smart home solutions for Bluetooth
Training Resources
Learn more about Bluetooth with these training assets
Curriculum
This EFR32BG22 training provides customers with the information needed to begin developing with the EFR32BG22 Bluetooth device from Silicon Labs.
Curriculum
This Bluetooth workshop provides hands-on training and teaches users how to develop and deploy ultra-low-power, secure Bluetooth connectivity with the BG22 with Simplicity Studio v4.
Curriculum
This Bluetooth applications training introduces new enhancements from Bluetooth 5.1 and 5.2 and how Bluetooth designs can benefit from these updates.
Recorded Webinar
October 28, 2020
Tech Talk
October 27, 2020
Tech Talk
July 10, 2020
Overview
Applications
Training
Security
Security and Bluetooth
When considering security in the context of IoT, there are multiple aspects a developer needs to consider.
Very few protocols are transmitted without some form of encryption in place. The alliances behind most of the leading standards-based protocols tend to make it mandatory and most proprietary protocols tend to implement protocol security using existing well-tested industry schemes.
In all cases, however, the encryption used by the protocol is only as strong as the security offered by the physical device itself. The easiest device attack is a remote attack on software to inject malware which is why a hardware root of trust secure boot is critical. Many IoT devices are easily acquired in the supply chain and allow “Hands-On”, or “Local” attacks which allows attacking the debug port or using physical attacks like side-channel analysis to recover secrets outside of communication encryption.
Silicon Labs offers a portfolio of device-level security options. To learn more click through to our security pages.
EFR32BG22 Thunderboard Kit
The Thunderboard BG22 Kit ?(SLTB010A) is a small form-factor, optimized development platform for adding Bluetooth connectivity to battery-powered IoT products.
EFR32BG22 Thunderboard Kit
The Thunderboard BG22 Kit ?(SLTB010A) is a small form-factor, optimized development platform for adding Bluetooth connectivity to battery-powered IoT products.