Pericom Semiconductor Introduces Industry’s Lowest Voltage Clock Buffers

Pericom Semiconductor Introduces Industry's Lowest Voltage Clock Buffers

Pericom Semiconductor Corporation announced the industry's lowest operating voltage clock buffers. This new generation of clock products enables very cost effective clock distribution with tight signal integrity requirements for high growth networking, storage, and telecom infrastructure applications such as Gigabit Ethernet.

Pericom Semiconductor Introduces Industry's Lowest Voltage Clock Buffers Clock buffers provide cost effective clock distribution for networking applications

The new product family generation offers very low skew (70 ps), controlled duty cycle, and integrated very low phase noise crystal oscillator options. The PI6CL1080x / PI6C1080x family of clock buffers operates with supply voltages of 1.2V/1.5V and 1.8V/2.5V respectively, and accept input voltages of up to 3.6V. For further cost savings, some of the family products also have an option that enables internal clock generation for frequencies of up to 40MHz without needing an external crystal oscillator.

In addition to a wide selection of advanced clock and clock buffer IC products, Pericom also provides companion crystal and crystal oscillator solutions – thus providing the most complete clock tree solutions for a wide variety of high-speed serial protocols – including Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express, SATA, SAS, and XAUI.