Broad clock management fanout buffer products ideal for communications, enterprise and data center markets

Microsemi Corporation has four new miClockBuffer products and three new miSmartBuffer products in its portfolio of clock management fanout buffers. The ZL40230, ZL30235 and ZL30240 miSmartBuffer and ZL40231, ZL40234, ZL40241 and ZL40260 miClockBuffer devices further expand Microsemi’s broad lineup of high performance products targeted to a variety of applications within the communications, data center and enterprise markets. The ZL40231, ZL40234, ZL40241 and ZL40260 provide customers with single-ended and differential fanout buffers with hardware control pins, while the ZL40230, ZL40235 and ZL40240 additions to the miSmartBuffer lineup offer highly flexible single-ended and differential outputs (I/Os) and per output control through a serial port. The new devices augment the company’s product family of traditional differential buffers and miSmartBuffers to complete customers’ clock trees by offering expanded options and features including up to 10 differential outputs, per output and output bank control, ultra-low additive jitter and power supply noise suppression. “The introduction of our new miClockBuffer and miSmartBuffer devices not only expands our broad portfolio of robust clock management solutions, but also advances Microsemi’s ability to secure a larger share of board real estate in these growth markets,” said Maamoun Seido, vice president and business unit manager of Microsemi's timing products. “Combining the attractive new features of these products with Microsemi’s miClockSynth clock synthesizers enables designers to create larger clock trees or simplify small clock trees, leading to significant cost savings for our communications, enterprise and data center customers.”