The rollout is to keep up with the need to solve long-standing timing problems in both telecommunications and networking equipment.
With 20 times greater vibration resistance, 10 times better dynamic stability, greater resistance to extreme temperatures, 30 times higher dynamic performance, and 30 times higher reliability compared to original ones, the new oscillators enables the communications equipment to keep high performance, best reliability and high quality service even in the presence of environmental stresses.
The Stratum 3 with unique in-system programmability (ISP) in Elite Platform also improves system BOM and multi-protocal support.
“Network densification is driving rapid deployment of equipment in uncontrolled environments such as basements, curbsides, rooftops, and on poles. Precision timing components in these systems must now operate in the presence of high temperature, thermal shock, vibration and unpredictable airflow. Service providers are questioning if quartz technology is up to this challenge,” said Rajesh Vashist, CEO at SiTime. “Customers have enthusiastically validated SiTime’s MEMS-based Elite Platform, as it uniquely solves such environmental issues. We believe that our new Elite solutions will transform the $1.5 billion telecommunications and networking timing market.”
Based on DualMEM architecture with TurbroCompensation, the timing solution eliminates activity dips and 30 times btter vibration immunity than quartz and delivers 40 times faster temperature tracking to ensure high performance under airflow and rapid temperature changes.
The integrated mixed-signal circuits with on-chip regulators, a TDC (temperature to digital converter) and a low-noise PLL that deliver 5 times better immunity to power-supply noise, 30 uK temperature resolution that is 10 times better than quartz, and support for any frequency between 1 and 700 MHz.
“New telecom infrastructure uses 4G/5G small cells and Synchronous Ethernet to increase network data capacity. The high-power components that are used in such systems will face high and constantly changing heat loads,” said Joe Madden, founder and principal analyst at Mobile Experts. “The dynamic performance of precision timing components during rapid temperature change will become a critical requirement in such equipment. The advanced MEMS technology performs better in the presence of dynamic environmental conditions, and has become a very interesting alternative to quartz technology.”
The oscillators will be comming in four-types –Stratum 3 precision Super-TCXO, Super-TCXO, ultra-low jitter differential oscillators, and high-temperature high-reliability differential VCXO.
Engineering samples of the Elite-based ultra-low jitter differential oscillators and high-temperature VCXOs are available to qualified customers now.
Samples of Elite-based Super-TCXOs will be available in the first half of 2017.
