GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The ICS8531-01 is a low skew, high performance 1-to-9 Differential-to-3.3V LVPECL Fanout Buffer and a member of the HiPerClockS™ family of High Performance Clock Solutions from ICS.

FEATURES

• 9 differential 3.3V LVPECL outputs

• Selectable CLK, nCLK or LVPECL clock inputs

• CLK, nCLK pair can accept the following differential input

levels: LVDS, LVPECL, LVHSTL, SSTL, HCSL

• PCLK, nPCLK supports the following input types:

LVPECL, CML, SSTL

• Maximum output frequency up to 500MHz

• Translates any single ended input signal (LVCMOS, LVTTL,

GTL) to 3.3V LVPECL levels with resistor bias on nCLK input

• Output skew: 50ps (maximum)

• Part-to-part skew: 250ps (maximum)

• Propagation delay: 2ns (maximum)

• 3.3V operating supply

• 0°C to 70°C ambient operating temperature

• Industrial temperature information available upon request