August 2, 2011 -- Analog Bits, Inc. today announced immediate availability of a new high-precision, low-jitter LC Tank PLL IP for system-on-chip (SOC) applications running at 100Gbps and above data-transfer rates. This new addition expands Analog Bits' clocking IP product line of PLLs which will now enable SOC designs for very high-end telecommunications and networking applications that are helping expand the cloud computing market.

Positioned for high-fidelity, low-jitter sampling and transmission applications, the new LC Tank PLL operates on less than 12mW while capable of providing multiphase clocks of up to 14GHz in a footprint smaller than 0.26mm².

"Extremely low jitter PLLs, such as Analog Bits' 300fs-class IP proved extremely critical to the design success of our 28-Gbps SerDes that is proving to be a differentiating device cost-effectively targeting 100Gigabit Ethernet applications," said Norman Young, Vice President of Engineering , Inphi Corp.

The new LC Tank PLL is silicon-proven in TSMC's 40-nm general-purpose (G) process and is actively being ported to the foundry's 28-nm node. It incorporates special process components, such as process-specific inductors, to achieve its very high precision.