Now Joining the Arduino Ecosystem: Our Lyra 24 Series!

Arduino and the Lyra 24 – Bringing our Hardware to a Massive Open-Source Ecosystem

Ezurio is a wireless partner with the sole mission of empowering your embedded and wireless designs. We use our decades of design experience to extend our product expertise to you, with many development options, software environments, and hardware integrations. Our partnerships allow us to provide hardware offerings that are supported by partner ecosystems, such as our Sera NX040 Click board within the MIKROE Click board ecosystem. Today, we join another open-source community with Arduino support for our Lyra 24 Series Bluetooth 5.4 modules. 

Our Lyra 24 is based on Silicon Labs EFR32BG24 SoC. This range of flexible modules, adapters and DVKs marries all the benefits of Silicon Labs hardware, software, and tools offerings with Ezurio's added value application software, services, certification, and support capabilities. It also leverages popular interfaces like the Mikrobus by MIKROE and a Qwuiic Connect header by Sparkfun. Our partnerships continue to provide customers with multiple software and hardware development options suited to their resources and skillsets in Bluetooth LE-enabled product development. They feature support for many popular Bluetooth 5.4 features, including AoA/AoD ranging and Bluetooth LE Mesh.

Our first available Arduino-compatible offering is the 453-00145-K1 development kit, with more to follow in the coming weeks. Bringing the Lyra 24 to the Arduino ecosystem gives developers yet another way to develop their Bluetooth applications. By integrating the Lyra 24 into the Arduino IDE, we provide an easy path for developers to integrate the Lyra 24 into an existing Arduino design, as well as a pre-configured path to interface the Lyra 24 with other Arduino-integrated hardware. 

A Popular Platform with Wide Support and Extensibility

Arduino is the electronics ecosystem known the world over for making electronic design simpler, with cross platform software and open-source tools to democratize hardware development. Arduino is widely known as a favorite among hobbyists and enthusiasts for its easy-to-use hardware, its accessible and streamlined software development, and the massive amount of community support and collective knowledge base that has amassed over the years. 

However, Arduino is also a highly popular platform for OEMs designing consumer and industrial products as well. Arduino’s widely used platform translates very well as a platform for designs in many industries. Arduino software is designed for power users with a full IDE, CLI tools, PLC programming tools, Cloud-based device sense and control, and much more. Get started with Silicon Labs’ code repository at https://github.com/SiliconLabs/arduino. 

These components add up to a simplified hardware platform with a powerful backbone that scales. With Arduino, you can prototype with the confidence that your design can grow to meet the volume and challenges that OEMs require for customer-facing designs. Arduino helps businesses with traditional enterprise problems and makes it easy to integrate common requirements like Modbus, image recognition and signal processing, cryptographic authentication, and much more. 

A Speedy Route to Bluetooth LE Integration

Our Lyra 24 leverages excellence in Silicon Labs hardware with our own hardware and software support and expertise, representing a Bluetooth LE platform that has everything: High performance wireless with intelligent power management, comprehensive security with root of trust and cryptographic acceleration, and full industrial operating temperature range.  They Lyra 24 series is programmable via three development options: 

• Python Scripting via Canvas Software Suite
• AT Command Mode
• C Code via Simplicity Studio

Note: Our recently updated Lyra 24 firmware is now better than ever with new AT Command features, expanded maximum command lengths, improvements to speed and stability for virtual serial port (VSP), remote command mode for OTA configuration over VSP and much more. You can get it here.

Now, that hardware enters the Arduino ecosystem with pre-configured board files to help OEMs quickly integrate the Lyra 24 into an existing design, or to jumpstart your product development out of the gate. Especially for design teams who are just starting out with wireless development or teams with limited resources, integrating the Lyra 24 can cut months out of your product design cycle. And they come pre-certified for many of the most popular regulatory regions: FCC, EU, UKCA, ISED, RCM, MIC, and KC. 

Learn how the Lyra 24 can accelerate your development and help you hit the ground running with next generation Bluetooth LE at:

http://www.ezurio.com/lyra24-series 

Get Silicon Labs Arduino software from the Silicon Labs Arduino repo at: 

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/arduino/releases/