General Description

The MAX9321/MAX9321A are low-skew differential receiver/drivers designed for clock and data distribution. The differential input can be adapted to accept a single-ended input by connecting the on-chip VBB supply to an input as a reference voltage.

Features

♦ Improved Second Source of the MC10LVEP16 (MAX9321)

♦ +2.25V to +3.8V Differential HSTL/LVPECL Operation

♦ -2.25V to -3.8V Differential LVECL Operation

♦ Low 17mA Supply Current

♦ 20ps Part-to-Part Skew

♦ 172ps Propagation Delay

♦ Minimum 300mV Output at 3GHz

♦ Output Low for Open Input

♦ ESD Protection >2kV (Human Body Model)

♦ On-Chip Reference for Single-Ended Input

♦ Available in Thermally Enhanced Exposed-Pad SO Package

Applications

    Precision Clock Buffers

    Low-Jitter Data Repeaters