Bristol, England, January 27th, 2008 – Nanotech Semiconductor Limited (“Nanotech”), a fabless IC company specializing in advanced Analog & Mixed-Signal ICs for fiber based Communications applications, today announced availability of its latest breakthrough in CMOS TIA design.
With a standard PIN diode of 0.7pF the NT23L50 offers –34.5dBm typically at 622Mbps, or only 44nA of Input-referred Current Noise, for the best sensitivity yet seen. Bandwidth is typically 490Mhz, and Duty Cycle Distortion and Jitter are factors of 5 and 10 better than rival ICs.
The NT23L50 requires a single 3.3v supply, at 28mA current consumption, and is pin-compatible with previous products. Photodiode Monitor source/sink and output polarity are both bond-programmable, offering complete build flexibility.
Being based on the already-qualified NT24L50 1.25Gbps TIA, the N T23L50 can be qualified by similarity, allowing much quicker and lower-cost design-in by customers. Production ramp up starts now.
Dr. Ya Nong Ning, Marketing Director for GOF products, added: “Manufactured in standard 0.18u CMOS, at the world's largest wafer foundry, this family of TIAs offers customers exactly what they need in terms of reliability, short manufacturing lead-times, security of supply and CMOS pricing, in addition to the best TIA performance ever seen. With the core IP having been developed, we can now rapidly turn the handle on standard-product and customer-specific variants, all having best-in-class price/performance.”
Gary Steele, CEO, commented: “One of the things our customers are getting increasingly concerned by is the financial stability of certain key SiGe/BiCMOS wafer foundries, who are losing large sums of money each Quarter. By contrast our foundry partner, TSMC, has an enviable record of profitability and huge financial reserves, should a coming downturn be prolonged.”
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