ADI's new RF Clock IC Meets Demands of High-speed Data Converters

The AD9525 RF clock IC achieves absolute broadband root-mean square jitter of 83-fs (1-kHz to 100-MHz offset range), at 245.76 MHz, including jitter contribution from the external voltage-controlled oscillator. The new RF clock IC supports up to a 3.6-GHz output speed that is nearly three times faster than competing clocks. The combination of high speed and low jitter is especially important for applications such as instrumentation and defence electronics where exceptionally clean clock synthesis is required for data conversion operations in the GSPS (billions of samples per second) range.

Key Features of the AD9525 RF Clock IC:

-RMS jitter:
83 fs @ 245.76 MHZ (1 kHz to 100 MHz)
46 fs @ 245.76 MHz (12 kHz to 20 MHz)

-Maximum output speed: 3.6 GHz

-Output-to-output skew: 25 ps

-Number of outputs: 8 LVPECL and 1 LVPECL SYNC

-Supply voltage: 3.3 V

ADI's AD9525 is available now priced at 8.33 (USD) each in 1,000 quantities. The AD9525 has an operating temperature range of -40°C to 85°C and is available in a 40-lead NiPdAu LFCSP package.