QSI Introduces New LCXPlus Logic Family; 51 New all-CMOS, 3.3-volt, High-Performance LCXPlus Logic Family.SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 1998--Quality Semiconductor, Inc. (QSI) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :QUAL QUAL Quality QUAL Qualitative QUAL Qualification ) announced the availability of a complete family of 51 new 3.3-volt high-performance LCXPlus(TM) logic devices. These new LCXPlus devices bring the benefits of Bus Hold and Output resistors to the 5-volt tolerant standard LCX family. They utilize QSI's existing LCX production experience that has been in full production fo over a year. The new LCXPlus family consists of octal, 16-bit and 32-bit bus interface functions. These devices are ideally suited for 3.3-volt application such as laptop computers and portable equipment. The 5-volt tolerant inputs and outputs allow interfacing in a mixed-voltage environment such as data processing, telecommunications, networking and mass storage markets. All LCXPlus devices from QSI are designed for hot-docking and hot-swapping applications. "QSI has packed exceptional features into the new LCXPlus logic family, according to Richard Nedinsky," QSI's marking manager for logic products. "The LCXPlus family brings the design engineer added features such as guaranteed low noise, and a bus hold option." Outstanding Features Bus Hold enables a logic device to retain its last valid logic state after the input signals are removed from the device. This eliminates the need for external resistors to ensure that CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. inputs are not floating. Output resistors improve the signal integrity in designs by reducing output overshoot and undershoot un·der·shoot n. A temporary decrease below the final steady-state value that may occur immediately following the removal of an influence that had been raising that value. with minimal impact on speed. In addition, LCXPlus offers C-speed with guaranteed propagation delay as low as 4.1ns. QSI provides the features needed by the system designers. The LCXPlus family features very low power consumption with typical 100nA standby current. Five-volt tolerant inputs and outputs enable interfacing with other 3.3-volt or 5-volt components on the same bus, thus avoiding the need for voltage translation. Designers can use the 5-volt tolerant feature of the LCXPlus family to migrate from mixed 5-volt/3.3-volt systems to pure 3.3-volt systems without redesign or requalification. This means faster time to market and lower inventory costs. The 8-bit functions are available in SOIC (Small Outline IC) A small-dimension, plastic, rectangular, surface mount chip package that uses gull-wing pins extending outward. See gull-wing lead, SOJ and chip package. and space saving QSOP QSOP Quarter Size Outline Package QSOP Quarter Small Outline Package QSOP Quad Small Outline Package QSOP Quadripartite Standing Operating Procedures QSOP Quarterly Standing Order Plan QSOP Quality Standard Operating Procedure QSOP Quarter Sized Outline Package packages. The 16-bit functions are available in SSOP SSOP Shrink Small Outline Package SSOP Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (USDA) SSOP Sanitary Standard Operating Procedures SSOP Sharescan-Open Platform (Ecopy) SSOP Site Security Operational Procedures and TSSOP TSSOP Thin Shrink Small Outline Package TSSOP Thin Scale Small Outline Package packages as well as the MultiWidth(TM) QVSOP(TM) packages where board space is critical. The 32-bit logic functions are available in the 80-pin MillipaQ(TM) package, which offers the designer the highest density 32-bit solution in an easy to use flow-through package. Price and Availability The complete LCXPlus logic family is available from stock. The 1000 piece pricing for typical LCXPlus products such as the QS74LCX2245Q in a QSOP package is $0.69 and the QS74LCX162245PV in an SSOP package is $1.24. About Quality Semiconductor Quality Semiconductor, Inc. manufacturers a complete line of 3.3-volt LCX , 3.3-volt LCXPlus and 5-volt FCT logic devices, clock management devices, QuickSwitch(R) devices, analog switches, JTAG devices, content addressable memory See CAM. content addressable memory - (CAM, or "associative memory") A kind of storage device which includes comparison logic with each bit of storage. A data value is broadcast to all words of storage and compared with the values there. devices and advanced all-CMOS Fast Ethernet transceivers and ATM multiplexer/demultiplexer networking IC products. These products are used in today's most sophisticated data communication, networking, image processing and digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). applications. In addition to innovative product development, QSI has been instrumental in the development of today's smallest semiconductor packaging such as QSOP, HQSOP HQSOP Hermetic Qsop (R), QVSOP(R) and MillipaQ(TM). QSI, QVSOP, HQSOP, QuickSwitch, and the Q logo are registered trademarks of Quality Semiconductor, Inc. Millipaq, and LCXPlus are trademarks of Quality Semiconductor, Inc.
CONTACT: Quality Semiconductor Inc.
Richard Nedinsky, 408/450-8078
e-mail: rich_nedinsky@qualitysemi.com
or
Dan Andersen, 408/450-8060
e-mail: dan_andersen@qualitysemi.com
Web Site: www.qualitysemi.com
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion