SpectraLinear Inc. Announces World’s First Family of Programmable PCI express clock generators with Gen.2 & Gen.3 Compliance for Embedded System Designs
SpectraLinear, Inc. a leading provider of timing solutions for the embedded, communication, computation, and consumer markets, today announced the world’s first family of programmable, PCIe gen. 2- and gen.3-compliant, clock generators. The bit-rate of Gen -3 is up to 2x faster than Gen- 2. This state of the art technology allows system board designers to achieve high signal integrity with optimum timing margins and performance, consequently allowing rugged manufacturing margins…all this with best of class power consumption and cost structure.
”This new family of PCIe clock generators is a further example of how SpectraLinear innovates with the design engineer in mind,” said Dr. Ilhan Refioglu, president and CEO of SpectraLinear. “SpectraLinear is committed to offering its customers products with best-of-class performance, low power requirements and unsurpassed programmability with flexibility and fast time-to-market.”
“PCIe is becoming the norm for I/O and inter-device interfaces in embedded designs”, said Elie Ayache Spectra Linear’s V.P. of Segment Marketing and PC clock B.U. “SLI has responded to this development technically and tactically by offering a range of products for engineers to choose from while maintaining industrial temperature compliance with commitment to a minimum of eight years production life.”
In order to support the diverse requirements of the broad embedded market, the PCIe G3 family offers a variety of options ranging from the number of outputs, to I2C/smBus interface, to the availability of EproClock®, a one time programmable, non-volatile technology
Note 1: REF output frequency depends on the configuration of the crystal value Note 2: Prog_SE is a non-volatile programmable single-ended clock. Customer specified - Factory Programmed Note 3: Applicable to PCIe Gen 2 Note 4: PCIe Gen3 filter characteristics are subject to final ratification by PCISIG. Please check the PCISIG for the latest specification Datasheets
