Simplicity Studio, LESENSE and smart Energy Harvesting
Recent announcements from Energy Micro reveal both new software and hardware innovations in addition to showcase alternative energy friendly power sources for smart microcontroller applications. You can read more by clicking on the headline:

• Linear Technology & Energy Micro Demonstrate the Future of Smart Energy Harvesting
  Based on Energy Micro’s low cost starter development kit, the energy harvesting demo relies on Linear Technology’s LTC®3588 piezoelectric energy harvesting power supply and Energy Micro’s ARM® Cortex™-M3 enabled EFM32 Gecko microcontroller to create a wireless sensor node acquiring data from a 3-axis accelerometer and transmitting it over a Zigbee RF transceiver.
• Energy Micro to introduce Simplicity Studio development suite to dramatically cut MCU development time
  Company makes long-term commitment to simplicity. Simplicity Studio™ will contain all the information, documentation and tools required by hardware, firmware and software engineers to more quickly and effectively develop embedded systems.
• Energy Micro adds low energy sensor interface
  Energy Micro has added a generic low energy sensor interface to its EFM32 microcontroller product family. The LESENSE function block enables autonomous monitoring of up to 16 external sensors in the microcontroller’s sub-microamp Deep Sleep mode.
• Safety-critical RTOS experience meets energy-friendly EFM32 devices
  Micrium, Inc. adds support in uC/OS-II and uC/OS-III for the EFM®32 Gecko microcontrollers. Micrium's RTOS modules and safety-critical capabilities and EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers represent an ideal combination for energy-efficient, small footprint, safety-critical embedded designs.