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SpectraLinear Timing Technology

SpectraLinear innovates with the design engineer in mind. The competitive and market forces you face are daunting. With product lifecycles continually shrinking and the demand for new technologies increasing, you need timing solutions that can sharpen your competitive edge. Our technology is tuned to help you:

Features	Your Needs	Our Solutions
Accelerate Time-to-Market	Shorter product life-cycles and brisk competition mean rapid time-to-market is a must.	Programmable clock products provide you with flexible timing solutions that can be optimized and delivered to you within a few days.
Reduce Power Consumption	A must for portable systems and reduced cooling costs.	Programmable output levels eliminate impedance mismatch, signal over/under shoot, and reduce dynamic power dissipation. Our clocks consume the lowest power thanks to patented PLL designs and architectures.
Accuracy	Faster systems and communication speeds require high accuracy and low jitter to maintain system timing margin.	EProClock® PLL technology allows you to program critical PLL parameters to reduce jitter, phase noise and spectral spurs. Fractional N and Delta Sigma architectures achieve 0ppm accuracy without sacrificing long-term jitter.
Lower Costs	The use of multiple crystals, oscillators and PCB layers is expensive.	Our higher level integrated system clock generators use a single crystal and reduce the number of PCB layers using Spread Spectrum clock technology.
Smaller Footprint	You need the convenience of portability or small formfactor.	A wide range of 1 to 4-PLL platforms optimized for the smallest possible footprint. These products are manufactured using the latest trends in design, processing and packaging technologies.
Signal Integrity	You need to correct your system timing and tune it for the best possible performance.	You can program output impedance, drive levels, adjust duty cycle and skew thanks to EProClock® technology. Choose EProClock® for optimum performance.
Timing Margin	You need to know how much timing margin you have for robust manufacturing.	You can deliberately increase frequency, jitter, skew and spread modulation to determine timing tolerances.
Meet FCC Requirements	You need to meet FCC requirements at the last minute without adding new components.	Use our programmable skew, edge rate control and Dial-a-dB® to minimize EMI while conducting EMC tests in the test chamber.
The Green Market	Environmentally hazardous substances are legitimate concerns.	We comply with all environmental legislation and regulatory requirements, including ROHS compliance. All our products are lead free.

Unsurpassed Programmability

SpectraLinear’s Innovative EProClock^® Electrically Programmable Clock Products bring fast time-to-market solutions to the system timing needs of a broad array of applications. They offer a wide range of creative and powerful ways to solve complex system-level application and signal timing problems, like signal integrity and EMI issues. The inherent flexibility of using EProClock programmable clock technology offers a host of other advantages.

Spread Spectrum Technology for Effective EMI Reduction

SpectraLinear’s EProClock and Dial-a-dB^® use spread spectrum technology that reduces electromagnetic interface emissions, eliminating the need for expensive and cumbersome shielding and filtering with passive components, saving development time and manufacturing costs.

Platform Capabilities

SpectraLinear has internally developed and patented an extensive library of high performance analog and mixed signal cells and blocks for targeted consumer, communications and computing applications. Our platform capabilities include:

• Analog and mixed signal high-performance phased locked loops (PLLs)
• Fractional-N and Delta-Sigma PLL modulation techniques
• Oscillators (XO and VCXO)
• EProClock^® Programming Technology
• Dial-a-dB^® Spread Spectrum Technology (SST) for EMI reduction
• I/O cells of different standards (TTL, CMOS, HSTL, LVPECL, LVDS, etc.)
• Programmable 7 level rise and fall times (drive levels)
• Voltage regulators and bandgap voltage references
• An extensive logic library

 

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