Silicon Labs Gecko SDK Suite 4.0 (GSDK) with Z-Wave 7.17.0.0 Pre-Certified include SDK for Z-Wave 700 Long Range and Z-Wave 800 Long Range

[Hedda]

Silicon Labs Gecko SDK Suite (GSDK) 4.0 looks to be released with Z-Wave 7.17.0.0 Pre-Certified inc. SDK for Z-Wave Long Range 700/800

https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/release-notes/SRN14862-3-7.17.0-Pre-Certified.pdf

https://docs.silabs.com/gecko-platform/4.0/

As far as I know, this is also the first time that Silabs released their Gecko SDK Studio in a public repository on GitHub:

https://community.silabs.com/s/article/Notes-on-the-recent-Simplicity-Studio-version-5-3-0-0-release?language=en_US

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

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/tree/gsdk_4.0/protocol/z-wave/Apps/bin/gbl

Anyway, here are some news from it:

Z-Wave 800 - Lower power compared to 700

• 55 % reduction in Rx current
• 35% reduction in Tx current

Z-Wave 800 – Longer range compared to 700

• Integrated +20 dBm PA
• 9 dBm sensitivity improvement for Z-Wave Mesh
• 3 dBm sensitivity improvement for Z-Wave Long Range

Z-Wave 800 – Best-in-class security: S2 and Secure Vault

These should be the same files you get if install latest Simplicity Studio from Silabs

https://www.silabs.com/developers/simplicity-studio

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/releases/download/v4.0.0/gecko-sdk.zip

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/releases/download/v4.0.0/documentation.zip

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/releases/download/v4.0.0/demo-applications.zip

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/releases/download/v4.0.0/pintool.zip

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/archive/refs/tags/v4.0.0.zip

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/archive/refs/tags/v4.0.0.tar.gz

PS: Not sure if Gecko SDK 4.0 was accidentally released or official as of yet as their version history still says that Gecko SDK Suite 3.2 is latest:

https://docs.silabs.com/gecko-platform/latest/version-history

Link to 4.0 seem to work through:

https://docs.silabs.com/gecko-platform/4.0/