“Arduino’s simplicity, ease of use, and powerful development environment make it very appealing to its community of over 33 million users, whether they are beginners or have extensive development experience,” said Rob Shane, Vice President of Sales and Applications for the General Market at Silicon Labs. “By combining Arduino software libraries with Silicon Labs-based hardware, developers get the best of both worlds thanks to our unique levels of security, energy efficiency, and processing power for Matter.”.

Code samples, reference designs, documentation, and other resources are already available on the Arduino Core for Silicon Labs Devices GitHub page.


Arduino accelerates Matter development for Silicon Labs developers

Arduino is an ecosystem that offers hardware products, software solutions, and cloud services accessible to everyone. In line with the open-source nature of the entire project, the Arduino programming language, used in its Integrated Development Environment (IDE), has grown and evolved over the years thanks to the contributions of its very active community and user base, ensuring the platform meets the changing needs of the embedded computing market. Its intuitive interface and remarkable ease of use have made it a favorite for both students taking their first steps in programming and professional developers. This new partnership represents a crucial step forward in this direction, making the development of a Matter device easier than ever.

“Empowering innovators has always been a top priority for Arduino, and our collaboration with Silicon Labs takes that commitment to a new level. This partnership represents a significant step forward in facilitating the development of Matter applications, both within and beyond our community. By integrating Arduino’s simplicity and powerful development environment with the outstanding performance of Silicon Labs hardware, we are providing users with a unique blend of accessibility and advanced features. We are excited to lay the foundation, together with Silicon Labs, for the next wave of innovation in the IoT environment,” commented Fabio Violante, CEO of Arduino.

In fact, Arduino's shared software resources are incredibly powerful, offering a wide range of pre-compiled libraries that help developers quickly get their devices up and running. In internal testing, Silicon Labs engineers prepared a new board configured as a Matter device, ready to be added to a network, in under two minutes. This represents a significant step forward in making Matter development more accessible, simple, and faster than ever before.

The second phase of the alliance focuses on the commercialization of new hardware.
A complete platform for developing Matter requires both hardware and software, and in the second phase of the collaboration between Arduino and Silicon Labs, both companies are jointly developing a new member of the successful Arduino NANO family of development boards for small form factor devices. This new member of the family will incorporate Silicon Labs' MGM240 module.

The module, based on the MG24 SoC, provides wireless connectivity via Matter, Thread, and Bluetooth® protocols. Thanks to features such as an ARM Cortex-M33, 10 dBm output power, low current consumption, and the highest security standards of PSA Level 3 Certification, Arduino developers can create robust, fast, and energy-efficient applications while also ensuring end-user privacy. Its large memory—up to 1536 kB of Flash, 256 kB of RAM, and 32 GPIO pins—provides the capacity and extensibility required for Matter.

The alliance between Silicon Labs and Arduino anticipates the goal of simplifying IoT development.
This new alliance between Silicon Labs and Arduino is part of Silicon Labs' ongoing goal of making IoT development as simple and fast as possible. To achieve this, Silicon Labs not only collaborates with some of the world's leading development tool providers, such as Arduino, but is also developing its own tools, which will take a major leap forward with the release of Simplicity Studio 6 later this year. This next version of Simplicity Studio will allow developers to integrate their own favorite IDE, meaning they can program their devices in their preferred environment and using their preferred language. Learn more about Silicon Labs and how it strives to make things easier for developers: