Major Portfolio Expansion for High-Volume Market Strengthens
Industry's Broadest Range of Clock IC and Oscillator Products
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Silicon
Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance,
analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today announced a major expansion of
its timing IC portfolio in response to strong market demand for
cost-effective, programmable timing devices. The company has added more
than 100 clock generation and clock distribution products designed for
cost-sensitive, high-volume consumer, enterprise, communications and
embedded applications. The portfolio expansion, resulting from the
company's recent acquisition of SpectraLinear Inc., further establishes
Silicon Labs as the industry's most comprehensive timing IC supplier
offering the broadest range of mixed-signal, low-jitter clocks, buffers
and oscillators.
Silicon Labs' newly added clock generator and buffer products are
designed to deliver the lowest power, smallest size and greatest
frequency flexibility for cost-sensitive applications with timing
requirements below 400 MHz. The clock generators use from 20 to 40
percent less power than competing clock products, significantly
extending battery life in portable applications. They also have a 30
percent smaller footprint than competing clocks, with single and
dual-output package sizes as small as 1.8 mm x 2 mm, making these tiny
clock generators ideal for space-constrained portable and consumer
applications.
The availability of one to four-PLL clock generator platforms ensures
unprecedented flexibility in matching cost and performance to
application needs. Flexible clock architectures enable factory
customization to optimize jitter performance, functionality and system
cost. Silicon Labs' customer-friendly product configuration and ordering
capabilities can accommodate late design cycle changes to clock
parameters, enabling mass-customization of timing IC solutions
previously unavailable from competing suppliers.
The new clock generators offer best-in-class EMI reduction technology by
providing more than twice the configurability of competing solutions for
rise/fall times, output impedance, spread spectrum profiles, output skew
and frequency. The ease of customizing these signal parameters reduces
EMI compliance issues, which helps speed time to market.
Silicon Labs' expanded timing IC portfolio now includes the following
factory-customizable, fixed-function and drop-in replacement clock
generator and clock distribution products:
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General-purpose low-voltage CMOS (LVCMOS) clock
generators: Programmable clocks offering 1-11 outputs, output
frequencies up to 200 MHz and superior EMI performance; used in
digital cameras, printers, graphics cards, set-top boxes, HDTVs and
home gateways.
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PCI Express (PCIe) Generation 1/2/3 clock
generators: Customizable and fixed-function clocks with
programmable output frequencies up to 400 MHz, optimized for the PCIe
interconnect standard used in consumer, server, storage, IP gateway
and industrial systems.
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x86 clock generators for embedded systems:
Offering the lowest power consumption for industry-leading x86
platforms, widely used in embedded applications such as storage, blade
servers, STBs, home and industrial automation, and medical and test
equipment.
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Clock distribution products: Zero-delay
buffers and LVCMOS fanout buffers used in servers, routers and
switches; temperature-controlled XO (TCXO) fanout buffers for smart
phones, tablets and other handheld products; and PCIe buffers for a
wide range of PCIe applications.
"The expansion of our low-power, small-footprint clock and buffer
product lines significantly broadens Silicon Labs' timing IC portfolio
for cost-sensitive, high-volume applications," said Mike Petrowski,
general manager of Silicon Labs' timing products. "As the timing
market's leading technology innovator and the foremost ‘one-stop-shop'
supplier of mixed-signal timing solutions, we offer frequency-flexible,
customizable, low-jitter clock and oscillator products for every price
range, performance need and development schedule."
About Silicon Labs' Timing IC Portfolio
Silicon Labs offers the industry's broadest portfolio of timing devices
including programmable XO/VCXOs, CMOS-based silicon oscillators, clock
generators, jitter-attenuating clocks, low-jitter clock multipliers,
buffers and physical layer timing devices. Leveraging Silicon Labs'
patented DSPLL® and MultiSynth® technologies, these timing ICs eliminate
the need for many expensive discrete components while improving
performance, minimizing board space and simplifying designs. To help
developers get to market faster, Silicon Labs offers an easy-to-use Web
utility that allows custom-configuration of XO/VCXOs for a variety of
applications; samples ship in less than two weeks, eliminating long lead
times associated with custom devices. Silicon Labs' Web-based
ClockBuilder utility also enables developers to customize any-frequency
clock generators online, simplifying product selection, device
configuration and procurement; lead times for these custom clocks shrink
from six weeks to less than two weeks.
Pricing and Availability
Production quantities of Silicon Labs' clock generation and distribution
products are available now in a wide range of small-footprint packages.
Pricing in 10,000-unit quantities begins at $0.69 for LVCMOS clock
generators, $2.03 for x86-compatible clocks, $1.38 for PCIe clocks and
$0.54 for buffer products (all prices in USD). For more information
about Silicon Labs' clock and buffer families for high-volume
applications, visit www.silabs.com/pr/clocksandbuffers.
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Silicon Laboratories is an industry leader in the innovation of
high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Developed by a
world-class engineering team with unsurpassed expertise in mixed-signal
design, Silicon Labs' diverse portfolio of patented semiconductor
solutions offers customers significant advantages in performance, size
and power consumption. For more information about Silicon Labs, please
visit www.silabs.com.
Cautionary Language
This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on
Silicon Laboratories' current expectations. These forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important
factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in
the forward-looking statements. For a discussion of factors that could
impact Silicon Laboratories' financial results and cause actual results
to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements,
please refer to Silicon Laboratories' filings with the SEC. Silicon
Laboratories disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise
any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
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Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Dale Weisman, +1-512-532-5871
dale.weisman@silabs.com
Source: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
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