Integrated

Circuit

Systems, Inc.

874003AG

www.icst.com/products/hiperclocks.html

REV. A JANUARY 25, 2006

1

ICS874003

F_SELA

0

1

÷4

F_SELB

0

1

÷4

VCO

490 - 640MHz

Phase

Detector

The ICS874003 is a high performance Dif-

ferential-to-LVDS Jitter Attenuator designed for

use in PCI Express systems. In some PCI

Express systems, such as those found in

desktop PCs, the PCI Express clocks are

generated from a low bandwidth, high phase noise PLL

frequency synthesizer. In these systems, a jitter attenuator

may be required to attenuate high frequency random and

deterministic jitter components from the PLL synthesizer

and from the system board. The ICS874003 has 3 PLL

bandwidth modes: 200kHz, 400kHz, and 800kHz. The

200kHz mode will provide maximum jitter attenuation, but

with higher PLL tracking skew and spread spectrum

modulation from the motherboard synthesizer may be

attenuated. The 400kHz provides an intermediate bandwidth

that can easily track triangular spread profiles, while

providing good jitter attenuation. The 800kHz bandwidth

provides the best tracking skew and will pass most spread

profiles, but the jitter attenuation will not be as good as the

lower bandwidth modes. Because some 2.5Gb serdes have

x20 multipliers while others have than x25 multipliers, the

ICS874003 can be set for 1:1 mode or 5/4 multiplication

mode (i.e. 100MHz input/125MHz output) using the FSEL pins.

PLL technology to achive the lowest possible phase noise.

The device is packaged in a 20 Lead TSSOP package,

making it ideal for use in space constrained applications

such as PCI Express add-in cards.

• Three Differential LVDS output pairs

• One Differential clock input

• CLK and nCLK supports the following input types:

LVPECL, LVDS, LVHSTL, SSTL, HCSL

• Output frequency range: 98MHz - 160MHz

• Input frequency range: 98MHz - 128MHz

• VCO range: 490MHz - 640MHz

• Cycle-to-cycle jitter: 35ps (maximum)

• 3.3V operating supply

• Three bandwidth modes allow the system designer to

make jitter attenuation/tracking skew design trade-offs

• 0°C to 70°C ambient operating temperature

• Available in both standard and lead-free RoHS compliant

packages

HiPerClockS™

ICS

QA0

nQA0

BW_SEL

0 = PLL Bandwidth: ~200kHz

Float = PLL Bandwidth: ~400kHz (default)

1 = PLL Bandwidth: ~800kHz

Pulldown

OEA

F_SELA

BW_SEL

CLK

nCLK

F_SELB

MR

OEB

QA1

nQA1

QB0

nQB0

Pulldown

Pulldown

Pullup

Pullup

Pullup

Float

ICS874003

20-Lead TSSOP

6.5mm x 4.4mm x 0.92mm

package body

G Package

Top View

QA1

QA0

nQA0

MR

BW_SEL

nc

F_SELA

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

20

19

18

17

16

15

14

13

12

11

nQA1

QB1

nQB1

F_SELB

OEB

GND

nCLK

CLK

OEA

Pulldown

0 = ~200kHz

Float = ~400kHz

1 = ~800kHz