Clock and Oscillator Reference Designs
Many semiconductor market leaders rely on Silicon Labs timing devices to reach optimal system performance, enhance flexibility and minimize the end customer’s design cycle. By working with Silicon Labs, other semiconductor vendors can provide advanced reference design solutions that enable quick customer adoption and fast time to market.
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Some of our partner reference design solutions are showcased below.
| Altera |
Altera Corporation is the leader in innovative custom logic solutions. Altera uses Silicon Labs' Si570 I2C programmable XO and Si5338 quad any-frequency clock generator on Stratix IV high speed serial development boards to achieve any frequency synthesis with industry leading frequency flexibility and performance. See below for active reference designs using Silicon Labs timing devices.
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| AMCC |
AppliedMicro is a global leader in Energy Conscious Computing and Communications solutions for Datacenter, Telecom, Enterprise and Consumer Applications. Silicon Labs timing devices such as the Si5326 jitter attenuating clock enable Pemequid and Rubicon OTN framer/mappers to achieve all required OTN data rates with optimal jitter performance. AMCC takes advantage of the Si5326 frequency flexibility and ultra-low jitter performance to provide timing circuits with reduced component count and simplified design. For additional information, follow the links below.
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| Cortina |
Cortina Systems, Inc is a leading supplier of intelligent communication solutions for the Core, Metro, Access, Enterprise and Digital Home network market segments.
Cortina uses Silicon Labs Si5326 jitter attenuating clock on its reference design showcasing the CS6500x framer/mapper for OTN applications. Benefiting from the industry’s best combination of flexibility and performance, the Si5326 minimizes design complexity associated with ultra-low jitter applications that support multiple high speed data rates.
Cortina also has chosen Silicon Labs’ Si5338C quad-output, differential clock generator for their new CS7542/CS7522 series of Scalable Digital Home Ultra Performance reference design platforms. The Si5338C’s any-frequency, any-format, any-output clock generation flexibility simplifies the clock tree to efficiently support the diverse networking, storage, video and audio interfaces featured by the CS7542/CS7522 controllers.
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| Galazar |
Galazar Networks Inc. is a leading semiconductor vendor focused on Ethernet, DS1/E1, DS3/E3 and SONET/SDH/OTN solutions for carrier grade Ethernet and Multi-Service line cards. MXP2-F is a complete hardware and software reference design that supports the flexible multiplexing of many and diverse client protocols into high speed serial links for WDM networks. Silicon Labs' Si5326 jitter attenuating clock helps Galazar deliver a reference design that performs well over a wide range of functional and jitter specifications covering many high speed line rates. For details, refer to the press release below.
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| Lattice Semiconductor |
Lattice is one of four major programmable logic companies in the world, and is the source for innovative FPGA, PLD, programmable Power Management and Clock Management solutions. Lattice uses Silicon Labs Si570 I2C programmable XO to generate ultra-low jitter clocking for the LFE3-95E-V-EVN Lattice ECP3 video protocol development board. The LatticeECP3™ FPGA family includes many features for video applications. For example, DisplayPort, SMPTE standards (SD-SDI, HD-SDI and 3G-SDI) and DVB-ASI can be implemented with 16 channels of embedded SERDES/ PCS. The Si570 frequency flexibility enables all of these rates with no BOM changes.
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| Vitesse |
Vitesse designs, develops and markets a portfolio of PHY transceiver and switching semiconductor solutions for Enterprise, Industrial and Carrier Ethernet networks worldwide.
Silicon Labs has developed an add-on card module containing a Si5326 jitter attenuating clock. This timing module combined with a Vitesse switching platform can deliver a complete Carrier Ethernet / Industrial reference design for customer evaluation.
Vitesse platforms supporting Silicon Labs' Timing Module:
Note: Vitesse NDA is required to access Vitesse evaluation board documentation.
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| Xelerated |
Xelerated is a global leader in network processing and programmable Ethernet switching solutions for the design of Carrier Ethernet, Unified Fiber Access and Mobile Backhaul platforms. Xelerated uses Silicon Labs programmable Si57x any-frequency clock generators and clock drivers on reference design boards for the HX family of network processors and AX family of programmable Ethernet switches. The Si57x frequency flexibility and low jitter allow high-quality synthesis used e.g. in Precision Time Protocol such as IEEE-1588 and Synchronous Ethernet applications.
For additional information about this reference design, please refer to the product brief.
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| Xilinx |
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. Xilinx uses a number of Silicon Labs timing devices including the Si570 I2C programmable XO, Si5324 low bandwidth jitter attenuating clock, Si5368 and Si5338 precision clocks to optimize jitter performance and maximize flexibility on end customer reference designs. See below for active reference designs using Silicon Labs timing devices.
| HW-FMC-XM104-G |
FMC Debug Mezzanine Card |
| HW-FMC-DBG-G |
FMC Debug Mezzanine Card |
| DK-V6-BCCN-G |
Virtex-6 Broadcast Connectivity Kit |
| HTG-V6HTG-100G |
Virtex-6 HXT 40G/100G Development Platform |
| Virtex-6 HX565T |
Virtex-6 HXT 8-lane PCI Express/4-port SFP+ Optical Network Card |
| Virtex-6 HX380T |
Virtex-6 HXT 16-lane PCI Express Optical Network Card |
| Virtex-5 AMC |
ATCA PICMG® AMC module with user configurable Virtex-5 FPGA |
Virtex-7
(VC707) |
Virtex-7 FPGA VC707 Evaluation Kit |
Kintex-7
(KC705) |
Kintex™-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit | |