Welcome to Efficient Labs
Tools built for our customers
Efficient Labs ships tools that help engineers get up and running with the Electron E1. We launched _labs because our customers deserve more than PDFs, datasheets, and tools that feel decades old. We built them with the help of AI because that is how we got from "wouldn't it be cool if" to something a customer can click on in an afternoon instead of a quarter. Use _labs to learn faster and design faster. Tools that earn their keep will keep getting better. The rest will make room for something more useful. If something helps, tell us.
If something is wrong, tell us that too. Email labs@efficient.computer.
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Pin Mapper
A visual planner that helps developers decide which features of the Electron E1 chip to wire up to which physical pins. The chip has hundreds of pins and a lot of flexibility in how they get used, so picking a layout by hand is slow and easy to get wrong.
The Pin Mapper turns that decision into a click-and-drop exercise: pick a feature like a sensor bus or a serial port, see only the pins that can host it, and get an immediate warning if your choice clashes with another assignment. A companion mode handles clock planning, so the same tool covers both "where does this signal live" and "how fast does it run." It removes a major early hurdle when starting a new project on the E1.
EVK Getting Started
A guided first-day experience for any developer opening the E1x EVK box for the first time. Instead of asking them to chase down a wiki or a PDF, this tool walks them step by step from plugging in the board to seeing their first program run, with a live photo of the board that lights up the relevant switch or connector at each step.
The tool tracks progress so a developer can stop and resume. It is the front door for evaluation customers and is designed to make the moment between "I have hardware" and "I have it running my code" as short and frustration-free as possible.
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3D Viewer
An interactive 3D model of the EVK board that anyone can open in a browser, no install required. It serves three audiences at once: an engineer who needs to find a specific component, a customer scoping a project who wants to see what is on the board, and a developer who needs working sample code to talk to a sensor through a specific header.
The Wire-it-up feature is the highest-leverage piece: pick the kind of peripheral you want to connect, and the tool tells you which pins to use, how to set the switches, and gives you copy-paste-ready code. It compresses what used to be a multi-hour datasheet exercise into a few clicks.
Energy Profiler
The tool a customer uses to answer the question "how long will the battery in my product last." The customer describes their device (which Efficient processor, which sensors, which radio), describes what the device actually does (read a sensor, send a packet), and picks a battery; the tool plots expected lifetime against how often the device fires, with comparison curves showing the same workload running on a competitor's MCU.
It removes all the duty-cycle and milliwatt-hour math a customer would otherwise need to do to evaluate us, which is exactly the friction that used to slow down early-stage conversations. The v2 release is a full UI overhaul of the original tool (authored by our CTO) that brings the look and feel into line with the rest of the EVK Tools family, makes the three-step workflow obvious at a glance, and replaces a dense form-driven UI with the same visual configuration patterns we use in the Pin Mapper and Getting Started.
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