Firmware development has become the greatest cost and worry in embedded system development.  Silicon Labs continues to offer the easy to use, professional development system at a great price. The engineer will be downloading code in minutes.  In addition to the ‘F700, ‘F800, and ‘F996 development kits, Silicon Labs provides the QuickSense™ Studio development environment at no cost.  Within this great tool are graphical configuration and analysis tools that will ensure robust sensing performance with minimum development investment. As with all the innovative Silicon Labs products, a library of applications notes exists to speed the implementation of this compelling technology.