Silicon Labs and Tuya Smart announced that Silicon Labs' SiWx917 wireless SoC combined with the TuyaOpen open-source development framework will add support for connected devices, letting developers innovate on Silicon Labs' low-power Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE hardware. The SiWx917 integration is available through Tuya's open-source code repository and works with the TuyaOpen IDE, giving developers a way to evaluate connected product concepts, including cloud AI-enabled connected toys and devices. The IDE offers AI-assisted coding to help developers generate and optimize application code on TuyaOpen.
Irvind Ghai, VP of Silicon Labs' Wi-Fi business, said the SiWx917 integrates low-power multi-protocol wireless connectivity, application processing, and hardware-level security in one chip; TuyaOpen support lets developers use these features when building for the Tuya ecosystem.
The TuyaOpen SDK supports the SiWx917 low-power Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE SoC, giving developers a new low-power hardware option with TuyaOpen's cross-platform framework and AI-assisted development workflow. Platform code and support for the Silicon Labs BRD2605A development board and the Sekorm SiWx917 AI development kit are available for early evaluation.
The SiWx917 integrates Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE, an Arm Cortex-M4 application processor, hardware-level security, and power management; its highly integrated architecture reduces component count for wireless connectivity and application processing. The TuyaOpen integration supports the BRD2605A and Sekorm SiWx917 AI kit, providing hardware for prototyping and evaluation with the SDK.
TuyaOpen offers a C/C++ software framework and hardware abstraction layer to separate application code from chip-specific features. Its TuyaOpen IDE integrates project setup, compilation, device programming, and serial log debugging in one environment, with AI-assisted development including natural-language assistance for generating and adjusting code. The TuyaOpen ecosystem combines device development with cloud services and multimodal AI, helping developers explore AI-enabled connected products with the SiWx917 as the hardware target.
Lai Xuanhan, head of TuyaOpen at Tuya Smart, said the SiWx917 support gives TuyaOpen developers another hardware option for connected products, and the SDK integration and supported boards enable fast evaluation of solutions based on low-power Wi-Fi and AI-assisted development tools.
ICgoodFind Summary: The SiWx917 integrates Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, an application processor, and hardware security in one SoC; with TuyaOpen, developers can directly use this low-power hardware in an open-source SDK and AI-assisted coding environment. For connected product developers, chip integration plus framework support shortens the concept-to-prototype path more than adding another optional chip.
