ALISO VIEJO, Calif.,
July 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
Microsemi Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP), today announced its
newest network synchronization integrated circuit (IC) product
family for Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) and IEEE™ 1588 timing and
line card applications. Targeted for upcoming 5G wireless equipment
and network infrastructure, the new product family provides
advanced phase measurement and adjustment capabilities which
simplify next-generation transport and wireless equipment design.
These capabilities also enable equipment to achieve the stringent
phase alignment requirements which are down to 130 nanoseconds (ns)
across the entire network.
As next-generation networks will move greater amounts of data
providing increased connectivity and must do so with lower latency
and at a lower cost, Microsemi's new network synchronization IC
product family provides the feature set necessary to address these
challenges. The devices' precise timing capabilities to monitor,
measure, tune and calibrate to the picosecond enable equipment
manufacturers to address the tenfold increase in phase alignment
accuracy required by 5G networks.
"The precise time capabilities of these new devices directly
address the growing constraints put on our customers by
next-generation networks," said Maamoun
Seido, vice president and business unit manager for
Microsemi's timing products. "Our new network synchronization IC
product family strengthens our leadership position in the market by
leveraging our deep expertise to solve these difficult 5G
requirements with advanced features and technologies."
According to market research firm IHS Markit, worldwide
acceleration in 5G developments has pushed the 5G forecast
substantially from $59 million in
2018 to $11.3 billion in 2022.
Microsemi's new product family is ideal for a variety of 5G
applications, including 5G baseband, radio units, distributed units
and centralized units. These new devices can also address the
demands of mobile fronthaul/midhaul/backhaul, including
microwave/millimeter wave and service provider switches and
routers.
Product Family Devices
Microsemi's new product family
includes SyncE packet clock network synchronizers—ZL30671, ZL30672
and ZL30673—which offer one to three channels of SyncE packet clock
synchronization, and the family's ZL30681, ZL30682 and ZL30683
offer one, two or three independent channels of SyncE clock
translation while the ZL30256 is able to attenuate and translate
frequencies up to three channels. Its IEEE 1588 and SyncE packet
clock network synchronizers—ZL30771, ZL30772 and ZL30773—offer one
to three independent timing channels of a combined hardware and
software platform including IEEE 1588-2008 Precision Time Protocol
(PTP) stack and synchronization algorithms.
Key features of the overall product family include:
- Precise time performance
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- Input vs. input phase measurement with 1 picosecond (ps)
resolution
- Input vs. digital phase locked loop (DPLL) phase measurement
with 1 ps resolution
- Input and DPLL phase adjustment with 1 ps resolution
- Output synthesizer has 1 ps phase-adjustment resolution
- Versatile feature set
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- 10 input references
- 16 programmable outputs
- three independent DPLL channels
- two precision synthesizers
- one general purpose synthesizer
- redundant oscillator support
- Full IEEE 1588 support
Product Availability
Microsemi's new network
synchronization IC product family is available now. For more
information, visit
https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/timing-synchronization/3432-network-synchronization
or email sales.support@microsemi.com.
About Microsemi's Product Portfolio for
Communications
Microsemi is a premier supplier of high
value-add semiconductor, system and services for the enterprise,
data center and telecom markets. Microsemi products enable
customers to build secure, reliable and low power systems that can
meet stringent requirements of next generation communication
networks. Customers leverage Microsemi technologies to drive
innovation in a range of applications including edge and core
routers, Ethernet switches, optical transport network (OTN),
wireless infrastructure including LTE-Advanced, small cells and
Wi-Fi access points; access aggregation and broadband gateways
including fiber/PON, G.fast and DOCSIS3.1.
Microsemi's comprehensive communications portfolio offers
market-leading advancements in multiple product categories
including high accuracy timing and synchronization systems,
software, components and services; feature-rich Carrier Ethernet
switches and PHY, power-efficient and multi-standard compliant
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) systems and components, G.hn, G.fast and
xDSL line drivers; innovative voice and audio intelligence, lowest
power FPGAs with highest security and single event upset (SEU)
immune fabric, security portfolio of hardware and software products
including state-of–the-art multi-layer encryption, sophisticated
key management, secure authentication with anti-tamper and
anti-cloning capabilities; 100 Gigabits optical drivers and the
most integrated Wi-Fi front-end modules (FEM). For more
information, visit
http://www.microsemi.com/applications/communications.
About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP), offers a
comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for
aerospace & defense, communications, data center and industrial
markets. Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened
analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs;
power management products; timing and synchronization devices and
precise time solutions, setting the world's standard for time;
voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components;
enterprise storage and communication solutions, security
technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Ethernet solutions;
Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design
capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in
Aliso Viejo, California. Learn
more at www.microsemi.com.
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