Ameya Agent Line Brand | Renesas Electronics Introduces PCIe Gen6 Compliant Clock Buffers and Multiplexers

Renesas Electronics (TSE: 6723), a global supplier of semiconductor solutions, today announced that it is the first to introduce clock buffers and multiplexers that comply with the stringent PCIe Gen6 standard. As the industry's leading supplier of advanced clock solutions, Renesas brings 11 new clock buffers and 4 new multiplexers. These new devices, with higher jitter margin when applied to PCIe Gen5, pair with Renesas' low-jitter 9SQ440, 9FGV1002 and 9FGV1006 clock generators to provide customers with a complete PCIe Gen6 clocking solution for data center/cloud computing , networking and high-speed industrial applications.

The PCIe Gen6 standard supports extremely high data rates of 64 GT/s with extremely low clock jitter below 100fs RMS. Renesas' new RC190xx clock buffers and RC192xx multiplexers have a PCIe Gen6 additive jitter specification of only 4fs RMS, making them virtually noise-free, allowing users to design their products to meet the requirements of next-generation industry standards.

"PCIe Gen6 clocking devices will be at the heart of new devices in data centers, high-speed networking, and other applications," said Zaher Baidas, vice president of Renesas' Clock Products Division."While customers build PCIe Gen6 clocking solutions to support these new, higher performance systems, Renesas customers know and trust our technical expertise and market insights to ensure their products meet future demands."

"By providing the first discrete timing solution for PCIe Gen6, Renesas enables customers to develop next-generation high-performance systems," said Rich Wawrzyniak, principal analyst at Semico Research. "It's interesting to see the innovation this new capability brings, especially since When considering how solutions in the emerging chiplet market start to evolve, speed and bandwidth need to be increased as fundamental constants.”

Key features of Renesas PCIe Gen6 Compliant Clock Buffers and Multiplexers:

• Ultra-low 4fs PCIe Gen6 additive jitter, 1.4ns input-output delay, 35ps output-output skew, and -80dB Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR) @100kHz, easily ensuring robust system design
• 30% space saving compared to previous devices
• Selectable SMBus addresses allow easy simultaneous use of multiple devices
• SMBus write protection feature enhances system security
• Loss of Signal (LOS) output supports system monitoring and redundancy functions
• 4-wire interface supports high-speed serial output enable/disable and device daisy-chaining
• Power-Down Tolerant (PDT) and Variable Startup Sequencing (FSS) features ensure good operation under abnormal system conditions

Successful Product Portfolio:

Renesas has combined the new RC190xx clock buffers and RC192xx multiplexers with a wide range of analog and power products to create a new "success portfolio" that provides comprehensive power and timing capabilities for Intel's latest generation of Xeon CPU platforms. This pre-tested design includes the Renesas 9SQ440 clock generator, multiple smart power stage devices, an LDO, a USB host controller, and a DDR5 server PMIC. Based on multiple products that work together seamlessly, Renesas has launched more than 300 "Successful Product Portfolios" for various applications and end products.

About Renesas Clock Solutions:

Renesas offers an industry-leading portfolio of chip clocks. In addition to a broad portfolio of clock buffers and clock synthesizers, Renesas offers ideal system timing solutions designed to address timing challenges in wireless infrastructure, networking, data center, and consumer electronics applications. With over 20 years of proven expertise in analog and digital clocking, Renesas' product portfolio achieves extremely low phase noise and extremely high performance with advanced clocking technology. Renesas offers an industry-specific "one-stop" clocking solution that covers everything from full-featured system solutions to device expertise and products required for simple clocking components. Renesas also offers a free clock tree design service, where in-house experts can assist users in building new clock trees from scratch, or evaluating and improving existing clock tree designs.