AUSTIN, Texas, Jul 14, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Silicon
Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance,
analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today announced an online Clock
Tree Design Service that gives customers quick access to Silicon
Labs' experienced applications engineering team to provide custom timing
architecture proposals that simplify design, reduce BOM costs and
minimize risk during development. When combined with the industry's
shortest component lead times of two weeks or less, Silicon Labs' clock
and oscillator family is designed to accelerate customers' time to
market.
Performance-sensitive applications often require a combination of
oscillators, clock generators and clock buffers to provide critical
reference timing to high-speed SerDes devices, FPGAs, processors, data
converters (ADC/DACs) and digital signal processors (DSPs). Not only is
individual timing component selection critical, but system-level
requirements also need to be taken into account to optimize performance.
Silicon Labs' online Clock
Tree Design Service enables customers to enter their system-level
timing requirements using a web-based utility, specifying multiple
parameters including the number of clock inputs and outputs, input and
output frequencies, signal formats and clock jitter. Silicon Labs'
applications engineering team reviews the requirements and provides a
timing architecture optimized for performance, cost and lead time.
Timing proposals are provided in just three business days, providing
rapid feedback to customers.
"Silicon Labs' applications team has extensive experience with
high-speed PCB design, signal integrity, signal termination, power
supply noise rejection and other challenges common to high-performance
applications," said Mike Petrowski, general manager of timing products
for Silicon Laboratories. "Our online Clock Tree Design Service enables
customers to solicit rapid feedback, accelerating the product
development process while reducing risk and ensuring next-generation
hardware designs are optimized for system performance."
Accelerating Design for Equipment Makers
Silicon Labs' extensive timing portfolio and online customer support
capabilities dramatically accelerate time to market and streamline the
development process. In addition to the Clock Tree Design Service,
Silicon Labs also offers the ClockBuilder(TM)
web utility to enable customers to quickly develop custom,
application-specific clock generators that support any combination of
user-specified input/output frequencies. The company's custom
oscillator utility enables developers to specify a custom
oscillator, build a part number and order samples in minutes.
Silicon Labs' complete family of clocks
and XO/VCXOs is available with the industry's shortest lead times.
Available with lead times of two weeks or less, Silicon Labs' custom
timing devices do not require non-recurring engineering (NRE) charges.
Silicon Labs Timing Products
Silicon Labs offers the industry's broadest portfolio of clocks and
oscillators for networking, communications, embedded computing,
broadcast video and consumer applications. This comprehensive portfolio
of high-performance jitter
attenuating clock multipliers, clock
generators, clock buffers, crystal
oscillators (XO) and voltage-controlled crystal oscillators (VCXO)
leverages Silicon Labs' patented DSPLL(R),
MultiSynth
and silicon oscillator technologies to eliminate expensive discrete
components while improving performance, minimizing board space and
simplifying system design. For more information, please visit www.silabs.com/timing.
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 highly integrated,
easy-to-use products offers customers significant advantages in
performance, size and power consumption. These patented solutions serve
a broad set of markets and applications including consumer,
communications, computing, industrial and automotive.
Headquartered in Austin, TX, Silicon Labs is a global enterprise with
operations, sales and design activities worldwide. The company is
committed to contributing to our customers' success by recruiting the
highest quality talent to create industry-changing innovations. 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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SOURCE: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
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dale.weisman@silabs.com
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