Monday February 1, 1999
Company Press Release
IDT Expands High-Performance Logic Families to Offer Industry's Most
Complete Product Line
Company's Offerings Include Multiple Logic Functions and Packages
for PC, Networking and Telecommunication Applicaions
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 1, 1999–IDT
(Nasdaq: IDTI), a leading supplier of high-performance family logic
and clock management products, today announced that it has significantly
expanded its next-generation Advanced Low-Voltage CMOS (ALVC) and Low-Voltage
CMOS (LVC) logic families with the introduction of 680 new logic devices.
With today’s announcement, IDT now provides the industry’s
widest range of high-performance logic solutions for PC, networking
and telecommunication products with multiple packaging options including
PicoGate (single-gate logic) devices, as well as devices with 4- to
36-bit-wide footprints.
IDT’s extensive product portfolio
of 836 logic parts now covers every ALVC/LVC function on the market
and includes nearly 450 devices that are second sourced under an agreement
with Texas Instruments. In addition, the LVC specification enables IDT
to replace existing LCX devices with equivalent LVC functions.
"Today’s announcement dramatically
affirms ALVC/LVC as the industry standard for high-performance family
logic," said Tony Walker, director of marketing for IDT’s
logic products division. "As designers of space-critical, low-voltage
applications adopt the ALVC/LVC standard, IDT’s comprehensive offering
allows customers to source all their high-performance logic requirements
from a single supplier."
Product Family Features
For high-density design capabilities,
the high-speed logic families include bus interface functions such as
buffers, line drivers, switches, transceivers, flip-flops, latches,
gates and multiplexers/demultiplexers. The ALVC family features maximum
propagation delays of 3.0 ns that allow designers to create faster system
designs, making the devices ideal for next-generation PCs, network switches
and routers, and telecommunication products.
The LVC family offers a 4.1-ns propagation
delay for 3-volt designs requiring 5-volt compatibility to interface
with mixed-voltage legacy systems. 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
as both a unidirectional and bi-directional 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 in addition
to the primary 3.3-volt specification.
PicoGate–Single-Gate Logic
Devices
The high operating frequencies of today’s
new 3-volt systems demand that fixes, inversions and last-minute design
changes be physically located as close as possible to the design issue.
In designs where board real estate is at an extreme premium, the small
size of PicoGate allows designers to easily add functionality to crowded
board layouts.
Walker added, "The PicoGate logic
devices we have introduced might appear to be out of place in this age
of function integration, but today’s designers cannot afford the
clock delay impact required to collect fixes in an ASIC, FPGA or multi-bit
logic function somewhere else on their board. The micro-miniature SOT-23
packages of PicoGate devices offer a quick and inexpensive solution
for telecommunication and PC applications."
Pricing and Availability
IDT’s ALVC and LVC logic families
are available in a variety of packaging options including PSOP, QSOP,
SOIC, SSOP, TSSOP, TVSOP, LFBGA from five-pin to 114-pad packages. The
devices range in price from 15 cents to $3 in 1,000-piece quantities.
The IDT74ALVCH16240 and IDT74LVCH16240A devices, for example, are priced
at $1.30 each in 1,000-piece quantities in a 48-pin TSSOP package. The
devices are available now through approved distributors.
About IDT
IDT enables a digitally connected world
by providing innovative semiconductor solutions to leading-edge system
designers in communications and computing. IDT’s broad product
mix consists of communications memories, networking products, both RISC
and x86 microprocessors, high-speed SRAMs and high-performance family
logic and clock management devices. The Company’s innovative technologies
and products take aim at markets expected to exceed a total of $20 billion
in 1999.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.,
the Company employs approximately 4,800 people worldwide and has manufacturing
facilities in California, Oregon, the Philippines and Malaysia. IDT
stock is traded on the Nasdaq stock market under the symbol "IDTI."
Additional information about IDT is easily accessible through the World
Wide Web (www.idt.com), CD ROM by calling 800/345-7015, or via fax-on-demand
at 800/9-IDT-FAX. The investor hotline is 408/654-6420.
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