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CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y., April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LeCroy Corporation's lineup of physical layer test instruments provides complete transmitter and receiver electrical physical layer testing for the new Thunderbolt® serial data standard. LeCroy's SDA 8 Zi-A Serial Data Analyzers, SDA II and Eye Doctor® II analysis software, SPARQ(TM) Signal Integrity Network Analyzers, and PeRT3® Protocol-enabled Receiver Transmitter Tolerance Testers have established leadership in their...

Next-Generation Adaptive Cable EQs Provide Cable Reach Beyond 200 Meters, Best-in-Class Density and Simplify Connector Options BURLINGTON, ON, April 5 /PRNewswire/ - Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND), a global leader in advanced signal integrity solutions for the broadcast video industry, today announced the addition of three new, next-generation 3Gb/s adaptive cable equalizers (EQs) to its innovative portfolio of broadcast solutions. Leveraging Gennum's leadership in adaptive...

DALLAS, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced the industry's most power-efficient 4-channel, 16-bit DAC (digital-to-analog converter). At 1.25 GSPS, the DAC3484 is 25 percent faster than the next fastest quad DAC while consuming as little as 250 mW per channel - 65 percent less than the closest competitor. The DAC3484 is also 40 percent smaller than alternative quad DAC solutions while enabling wideband power amplifier linearization...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) today introduced a new family of clock jitter cleaners featuring the industry's lowest phase noise and rms jitter performance: 111 femtosecond (fs) from 12 kHz to 20 MHz, and a wideband noise floor of -162 dBc/Hz at 184 MHz output frequency. This level of phase noise enhances the performance of systems used in wireless and wired communications, test and measurement, medical imaging, software defined...

1MHz to 150MHz Input and Output, 1.62V~3.63V operation, Lowest Power Consumption, With Smallest Footprint San Jose, CA (PRWEB) March 19, 2011 PhaseLink Corporation, a leader in frequency source generation and the inventor of Analog Frequency Multiplier(industry's best performing XO and VCXO clock multiplier ICs), and PicoPLL (world's smallest and lowest power programmable clocks) today announced the availability of a new family of fanout buffer families, PL133-XX and PL135-XX. These...

Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation is excited to introduce the Model 1120 Time Interval Counter (TIC). The Model 1120 represents a breakthrough in signal measurement with 1pS resolution on a single-shot. For repetitive waveforms, the jitter is typically 10 ps. The start and stop inputs allow for a wide dynamic threshold range and as well as slope select. San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) March 14, 2011 Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation is excited to introduce the Model 1120 Time Interval Counter (TIC)....

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Anritsu Company introduces a jitter tolerance and 4Tap pre-emphasis solution specifically designed to test interconnects up to 28 Gbit/s, at DesignCon 2011. Developed to meet the signal integrity requirements associated with designing backplanes for today's high-speed interconnects, such as Infiniband 26G-IB-EDR, CEI-25G, CEI-28G-VSR, PCI Express, SAS, SATA, FB-DIMM, USB 3.0 and Display Port, the solution allows engineers to ensure their...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) today announced it has achieved a breakthrough in high-speed signal conditioning by becoming the first company to successfully demonstrate 28 Gbps discrete quad-channel retimer technology with ultra-low power consumption to drive 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps interfaces in next-generation data center systems. "Rapidly increasing Global IP traffic is fueling the need for higher bandwidth interconnect solutions...

DALLAS, Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced three separate clock buffer families that offer improved clock signal quality with the industry's lowest additive jitter: the CDCLVC11xx, CDCLVD12xx/21xx and CDCLVP12xx/21xx families. These buffers are targeted at a variety of communication applications with frequency support of up to 2GHz (LVPECL), 800MHz (LVDS) and 250MHz (LVCMOS). These families of clock distribution buffers also save...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc., (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced the immediate availability of Virtex®-6 HXT FPGAs that support 40Gbps and 100Gbps line cards with flexible port configurations including 1x40Gbps, 4x10Gbps, 1x100Gbps and 10x10Gbps. Additionally, Virtex-6 HXT FPGAs support the long reach optical requirements of next generation communications equipment without the need for costly external re-timer circuitry through market leading transceiver...