Cypress Announces Industry's Highest-Performance Silicon Germanium Family Of Clock and Data Drivers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2003 FastEdge(TM) Devices Improve Jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle Performance Up to 90% vs. Competitive Solutions For Wireless Infrastructure, Optical Data Transmission and High-Speed Test and Measurement Equipment Cypress Semiconductor Cypress Semiconductor is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It began operations in 1982 and listed publicly in 1986. Two years later, the company shifted over to the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, (NYSE: CY). Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY), the world leader in timing-technology solutions, today announced availability of its FastEdge(TM) family of high-performance clock and data drivers. The new devices leverage Cypress's proprietary silicon germanium (SiGe) A semiconductor material made from silicon and germanium. Germanium is very similar to silicon, but when one layer is grown on top of the other to form the base of the transistor, the resulting transistor can switch faster and yield higher performance. (SiGe) technology to achieve the best jitter performance in the industry -- up to 90 percent better than alternative solutions. Operating at signal rates from steady state to more than 1.5 GHz, FastEdge drivers are Cypress's fastest clock-distribution devices to date. The FastEdge family includes seven buffers featuring a range of fan-out and divider ratios. Each device is implemented with a fully differential architecture optimized to achieve sub-1 picosecond One trillionth of a second. Pronounced "pee-co-second." See space/time and ohnosecond. (unit) picosecond - 10^-12 seconds. (ps) intrinsic jitter. This performance enables designers to distribute signals over long transmissions lines, across backplanes, or between linecard or server racks, with minimal impact on total timing budget. "Our in-house silicon germanium technology has enabled us to build the highest-performance clock and data drivers in the market," said Tunc Cenger, marketing manager for Cypress's Timing Technology Division. "Cypress builds flexible timing devices that can be customized on demand to meet the evolving requirements of today's high-precision systems in the shortest time possible. FastEdge drivers deliver a flexible architecture with ultra low skew (1) The misalignment of a document or punch card in the feed tray or hopper that prohibits it from being scanned or read properly. (2) In facsimile, the difference in rectangularity between the received and transmitted page. and industry-best jitter performance." The FastEdge family customizes a single base die with metal masks to implement a variety of clock and data drivers. In addition to flexibility, FastEdge devices offer designers a range of high-performance features, including a maximum of 1 ps root-mean-square (RMS) deterministic/intrinsic jitter, less than 300 ps output rise/fall time, 50 ps maximum output-to-output skew, and 400 ps propagation delay The time it takes to transmit a signal from one place to another. Propagation delay is dependent solely on distance and two thirds the speed of light. Signals going through a wire or fiber generally travel at two thirds the speed of light. Contrast with nodal processing delay. (typical). Pricing and Availability The FastEdge family of devices is available now in prices ranging from $6.75 to $12.95 per unit in 1,000 unit quantities. Part # Fanout Distribution Package ----------------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------ CY2DP3110 1:10 ECL/PECL/HSTL 32 TQFP CY2PP318 1:8 ECL/PECL 28 PLCC CY2PP3115 1:15 ECL/PECL 52 TQFP CY2DP3120 1:20 ECL/PECL/HSTL 52 TQFP CY2PP3220 Dual 1:10 ECL/PECL 52 TQFP CY2PP3210 Dual 1:5 ECL/PECL 32 TQFP CY2DP314 1:4 ECL/PECL/HSTL 20 SSOP For more information on FastEdge products, visit the Cypress website at http://www.cypress.com/products/datasheet.cfm?partnum=CY2DP3110AI. Photo A high-resolution photo of the CY2DP3110 is available at http://www.cypress.com/support/link.cfm?mr=fastedge. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY) is Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch, and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital, and optical transmission standards, including USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, and DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing . Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers, and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions, and programmable microcontrollers. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: Statements herein that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" involving risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions, shifts in supply and demand, market acceptance, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product development, commercialization and technological difficulties, and capacity and supply constraints. Please refer to Cypress's Securities and Exchange Commission filings for a discussion of such risks. Note to Editors: Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connectivity From Last Mile to First Mile", "Cypress Connects", FastEdge, CyberClocks, CyClocksRT, CyClocks, and RoboConfig are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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