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.”
Peter Bradbeer, CTO, commented: “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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