RF clock IC achieves industry’s best jitter performance

RF clock IC achieves industry’s best jitter performance

The AD9525 RF clock IC is claimed to offer the industry’s lowest jitter for communications and instrumentation equipment that requires high-speed data conversion and optimum SNR performance. The part achieves absolute broadband rms jitter of 83-fs (1-kHz to 100-MHz offset range), at 245.76 MHz, including jitter contribution from the external VCO. This IC supports up to a 3.6-GHz output speed that is nearly three times faster than competing clocks.

Additional features include an output-to-output skew of 25 ps, and outputs of 8 LVPECL and 1 LVPECL SYNC. Housed in a 48-lead LFCSP the part operates at 3.3 V.($8.33 ea/1,000 — availble now)

By Christina Nickolas

Analog Devices , Wilmington , MA
Sales 800-262-5643
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