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Significantly Smaller PLL Sizes Achieved Without Sacrificing Performance
LOS ALTOS, California - True Circuits, Inc. (TCI), a leading
provider of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) for the
semiconductor, systems and electronics industries, today announced the
immediate availability of a new line of Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard
macros that are one-third the die size of their current standard PLL
products.
The die area of these new high-performance PLL hard macros is about
0.07mm2 in 0.13um generation process technologies. This
area includes dividers and other required digital support logic,
supply bypass capacitance, and block isolation. Like other True
Circuits PLLs, these smaller versions are very flexible with wide
frequency and multiplication ranges, and offer low-jitter performance
over the entire operating ranges. Each hard macro also includes our
LockNow!TM Technology to dramatically improve
PLL lock times.
"These new PLLs have been carefully engineered to
significantly reduce die area without compromising the performance and
features offered by our current PLL products," noted Dr. John
Maneatis, True Circuits' President. "This reduced area option
will allow our customers extra flexibility in the placement of PLLs in
their chip floor plans."
Pricing and Availability
True Circuits smaller size PLLs are available for immediate customer
delivery. The hard macros are available for a per use license fee with
no royalty fees. The license fee includes integration support from TCI
to ensure a successful customer tape out. The deliverables include
GDSII and LVS Spice netlists, behavioral and synthesis models, Library
Exchange Format (LEF) files and extensive user documentation.
About True Circuits PLLs and DLLs
True Circuits offers a complete family of standardized clock
generator, deskew, low-bandwidth and spread-spectrum PLLs and DDR DLLs
that spans nearly all performance points and features typically
requested by ASIC, FPGA, and SoC designers. These high-quality,
low-jitter, silicon proven hard macros are available for immediate
delivery in a range of frequencies, multiplication factors, sizes and
functions in 0.25um to 90nm CMOS processes from the world's leading
silicon fabrication vendors. For more information about True Circuits
products, visit www.truecircuits.com/tci_technology.html.
About True Circuits
True Circuits develops and markets a broad range of award-winning PLLs, DLLs
and other mixed-signal hard macros for ICs for the semiconductor, systems
and electronics industries. TCI's robust state-of-the-art circuits,
methodical and proven design strategy and its close association with the
world's leading silicon fabrication vendors allow the company to quickly
and reliably create new and innovative designs in a variety of advanced
process technologies.
True Circuits is headquartered at 4962 El Camino Real, Suite 206,
Los Altos, California 94022 and can be found on the web at
www.truecircuits.com. Product inquiries can be made by calling the
company directly at (650) 691-2500 or via e-mail at
sales@truecircuits.com.
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