Products of the Week: April 22, 2024

April 22, 2024

Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.

The FemtoClock 3 family includes ultra-low jitter clock generators and jitter attenuators with 8 and 12 outputs.

Low-Power Timing Solution Offers Leading Jitter Performance

Renesas Electronics expanded its timing solutions portfolio with a 25-fs-rms clock for wireline infrastructure, data center, and industrial applications. The FemtoClock 3 family includes ultra-low-jitter clock generators and jitter attenuators with 8 and 12 outputs. FemtoClock 3 devices provide excellent phase noise and jitter to meet the needs of 112Gbps SerDes rates, as well as advanced 224-Gb/s SerDes designs using commonly available 48- to 73-MHz crystals. The devices can generate up to four frequency domains and offer integrated LDOs with superior PSRR, reducing board complexity and cost.

FemtoClock 3 devices provide multiple clock and synchronization functions in a single device with ultra-low jitter while offering a power dissipation of 1.2 W. Device variants offer jitter attenuation, synchronization, and clock generation capabilities with an integrated non-volatile memory for device customization. Provided in 7- x 7-mm, 48-pin VFQFPN and 9- x 9-mm, 64-pin VFQFPN packages, FemtoClock 3 devices are compliant with ITU-T G.8262 and G.8262.1 for enhanced synchronous Ethernet. Able to operate in conjunction with the Renesas IC Toolbox application, users can configure and program devices on the evaluation board as well as connect to the Renesas Lab on the Cloud platform.

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.