Developing with Silicon Labs Zigbee#

Zigbee is an open standard for reliable, cost-effective, low power, wireless device-to-device communication. Silicon Labs is the vendor of choice for OEMs developing Zigbee networking into their products. The Silicon Labs 802.15.4 platform is the most integrated, complete and feature-rich solution available for Zigbee. It includes a family of Wireless Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), based on Arm® Cortex® processor and 2.4 GHz transceiver, together with the most reliable, scalable and advanced software supported by best-in-class development tools.

The Silicon Labs Zigbee networking protocol stack (formerly called EmberZNet PRO, now usually Zigbee EmberZNet) is a complete Zigbee protocol software package containing all the elements required for robust and reliable mesh networking applications on Silicon Labs' devices. The Zigbee EmberZNet stack provides professional grade networking for the most challenging applications such as Smart Energy / Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Home Automation, Home Security, Smart Lighting and Building Automation systems.

The content on these pages is intended for those who want to experiment with or are already developing a Zigbee application using the Silicon Labs Zigbee EmberZNet SDK version 7.0 or higher.

For details about this release: Links to release notes are available on the silabs.com Gecko SDK page.

For Silicon Labs' Zigbee product information: See the product pages on silabs.com.

For background about the Zigbee protocol and other wireless networking topics: The Fundamentals section is a good place to start.

To get started with development: See the Getting Started section to get started working with example applications.

If you are already in development: See the Developer's Guide for details or go directly to the API References section.

If you are using earlier versions of the SDK: Links to content specific to earlier versions is available in Resources for SDKs Before Version 7.