Monday February 16, 8:58 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
IDT Introduces Industry's Highest-Performance 3.3- Volt Bus Interface
Logic Families
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb.
16, 1998--Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), a leading supplier
of fast CMOS logic, today introduced its next-generation logic families,
the Advanced Low-Voltage CMOS (ALVC) logic family and the Low-Voltage
CMOS (LVC) 3.3-volt Double-Density(TM) logic family.
With the ALVC family, IDT offers the
designer a more than 25 percent reduction in maximum propagation delay
compared to the 3-volt options in IDT's market-leading FCT series. In
addition, IDT and Texas Instruments (TI) today announced that they have
signed an agreement to serve as alternate sources for the two 3.3-volt
16/18/20-bit logic interface families.
``Our customers are designing some of
the most challenging telecommunications, networking and PC products
emerging today,'' said Tony Walker, director of marketing for IDT's
logic products division. ``High-performance logic is critical to their
success, and we're pleased to provide them with the fastest devices
available in the industry. We believe these next-generation families
underscore our commitment to our leadership in the high-speed logic
arena.''
The high-speed families include bus
interface functions such as buffers, line drivers, switches, transceivers
and multiplexers/demultiplexers. The ALVC family features maximum propagation
delays of 3.0 ns that allow designers to create faster system designs,
making the family ideal for next-generation PCs, network switches and
telecommunication products. Complementing the ALVC family is the LVC
family, offering a 4.1 ns propagation delay for 3-volt designs that
need to interface with 5-volt systems. LVC devices have been specifically
designed with a 3-volt power supply, which can provide performance comparable
to that of IDT's 74F family. The LVC family's capability for ``hot insertion''
allows designers the ease to interface different logic switching levels,
such that LVC devices can be used both as a unidirectional and bidirectional
level translator.
The ALVC/LVC device families have been
designed to provide a more uniform, minimal propagation delay, narrowing
propagation delay margins and thereby simplifying system design. In
anticipation of future system operating supply voltages, the ALVC and
LVC families have been specified for operation at 2.5 volts and 2.7
volts, in addition to the 3.3-volt primary specification. The -40 to
85 degrees Celsius extended commercial temperature range allows greater
flexibility of product usage in a more hostile environment. For board
layout purposes, packaging for the ALVC/LVC family is offered in the
16/18/20-bit wide footprints. With the availability of SSOP, TSSOP and
the TVSOP packages, smaller footprints conserve board space in space-critical,
low-voltage applications.
Pricing and Availability
The IDT74ALVCH162244 and IDT74LVCH162244
devices are available in TSSOP packages for $1.45 each in 1000-piece
quantities. The devices are available now through approved distributors.
About IDT
IDT enables a digitally-connected world
-- delivering innovative, high-performance integrated circuits and modules
to its key markets: data and telecommunications equipment, including
routers, hubs, switches and cellular base stations; personal computers;
and shared network devices, including workstations, servers and printers.
IDT's product mix consists of advanced
communications products, specialty memories, high-speed SRAMs, high-performance
logic and both RISC and X86 microprocessors.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.,
with manufacturing facilities located in California, Oregon, the Philippines
and Malaysia, IDT employs approximately 4,800 people worldwide. The
company's stock is traded on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol
``IDTI.''
Information about IDT is easily accessible
through CD-ROM by calling 800/345-7015, the World Wide Web ( http://www.idt.com)
and fax-on-demand services by calling 800/9-IDT-FAX. The investor hotline
is 408/654-6420. NOTE TO EDITORS: Double-Density is a
trademark of Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
Contact:
IDT Corporate Communications
Diana Lorang, 408/492-8210
lorang@idt.com or
Tsantes & Associates
Camille Aagard, 408/369-1500
camille@tsantes.com
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