SpectraLinear Inc. Announces World`s First Non-Volatile Programmable PC Clock Family

Fine Programming Granularity, Effective Clock Signal Remedy, with Fast
"Days-to-Samples" Hand Designers Speedy Time to Market
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & TAIPEI, Taiwan--(Business Wire)--
SpectraLinear, Inc. a leading provider of timing solutions for the consumer,
computation, embedded, and communication markets, today announced PC EProClock®,
the world`s first non-volatile programmable PC clock family.

"Our programmable technology allows system designers to achieve high signal
integrity, optimize timing margins and performance, improve manufacturing
margins and reduce EMI…all this with best of class power consumption and cost
structure," said Ilhan Refioglu, president and CEO of SpectraLinear.

System board designers that implement SLI`s PC EProClock enjoy unprecedented
benefits from the combination of non-volatile configurability with state of the
art clock generation capability. This effective structure allows the designer to
promptly achieve optimum compliance and clock signal integrity; historically,
attainable typically through device and/or board redesigns impacting schedules
by weeks or months. PC EProClock delivers rapid time-to-market results by
transitioning from the typical six-to-eight weeks that competitive devices
offer, to days-to-sample updated configurations.

Board designers effectively achieve high quality clock signals because the PC
EProClock quickly remedies such time consuming design parameters as impedance
matching, rise/fall times, skew and phase shifting, differential clock matching,
among other signal integrity issues that typically hinder compliance and
performance. Furthermore, PC EProClock allows tight control of these parameters
through non-volatile programmability, consequently enhancing system margin
testing and maximizing manufacturability with a production ready clock
component.

Elie Ayache, SpectraLinear`s VP of Segment Marketing and PC clock B.U. explained
that "currently available PC system clock devices offer limited, volatile
programmability, most often requiring engineers to perform board surgeries to
meet stringent compliance and signal quality requirements. SpectraLinear`s
intelligent combination of non-volatile EProClock technology with a robust
multi-PLL clock generator, hands the board designers the world`s first
non-volatile programmable PC clock with a superlative level of configurability."

Primarily designed for notebook, mobile/wireless applications, the SL2874x PC
clock family features less than 10 milliwatts (mW) per PLL, approximately half
of the power consumed by typical PLLs.

Due to its inherent high quality of signals and programmability, it is ideal for
servers and a wide range of embedded applications. Those include office
automation, robotics, data communications, automotive, security systems,
storage, and many others.

For more information go to www.spectralinear.com.

EProClock is a Registered Trade Marks of SpectraLinear Inc.

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