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8. Application Builder

Simplicity Studio shortens the software design cycle and reduces time-to-market with Application Builder, a graphical interface that

works in harmony with Silicon Labs’ application framework to make critical design choices up-front.

Figure 8.1. Simplicity Application Builder

The Silicon Labs Application Builder, or AppBuilder, allows a developer to start a new project based on an existing framework of best-

practice

application state machine code developed and tested by Silicon Labs. This framework sits on top of the wireless networking

stack to interface with the Hardware Abstraction Layer (or HAL) and provide application layer functionality, including the following:

• Start-up routines.

• Mechanisms for finding, joining, or forming networks.

• High-level APIs for creating, parsing, and handling message payloads.

• Configuration of the networking stack.

• Command-line interfaces for control of the program.

• Human-readable debug output tailored to the needs of the developer.

• Incorporation of customer-provided libraries and code modules.

The AppBuilder tool is modular enough to accommodate different data sets for different versions of application protocols, so you can

choose exactly the right version of application-level specs when it really matters for interoperability.

Within a given application layer, like ZigBee’s ZCL or ZigBee Cluster Library, you can pick from any of the defined device types to get

the desired mixture of client and server functionality, or you can build your own custom device definition from any of the available client

and server clusters.

Device-wide, stack-level settings like network node type and security method can easily be set via the picklists in AppBuilder, and all

relevant code is automatically included, with all unnecessary code being automatically removed in the final output. You can even use

the Simplicity Studio Application Builder to configure two different networks on the same chip, such as ZigBee PRO and RF4CE.

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