Sunnyvale, California – May 22, 2012 – SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company innovating the $6 billion timing market with silicon MEMS solutions, announced today that Xilinx Virtex®-7 FPGA, Kintex-7 FPGA, and Zynq-7000 EPP evaluation kits use SiTime’s programmable high-performance MEMS oscillators.

Xilinx uses SiTime's SiT9102 differential oscillator as the system clock and the SiT8102 oscillator as the HDMI reference clock, respectively, in the Virtex-7 FPGA VC707 evaluation kit and the Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 evaluation kit. In addition, the Zynq-7000 dual ARM processor evaluation kit uses not only the same two oscillators but also the SiT8103 single-stage oscillator.

Steve Logan, Analog Marketing Manager at Xilinx, said, “Xilinx is committed to providing customers with flexible, configurable, and ultra-high-performance solutions that accelerate design cycles. SiTime’s programmable MEMS oscillators complement our FPGAs by offering exceptional flexibility and configurability. We have achieved great success using SiTime’s MEMS oscillators in our previous generation kits and are extending their use to our 28nm 7 Series development platform.”

Piyush Sevalia, Vice President of Marketing at SiTime, stated, “Xilinx and SiTime are market leaders in their respective fields, and we share a common goal of providing the best programmable solutions that accelerate our customers’ design cycles and improve system reliability.” He added, “Our flexible timing solutions offer unique capabilities and 10 times greater reliability than existing quartz timing products.” “This is one example of how SiTime’s innovative MEMS technology and advanced analog design are replacing quartz and accelerating the electronics industry’s shift toward MEMS-based timing,” he said.

Regarding SiT910x and SiT810x oscillators
SiTime oscillators are designed with a programmable architecture that offers a variety of features along with rapid configurability and very short lead times. The SiT9102 provides differential outputs offering programmable signal levels such as LVPECL, LVDS, HCSL, and CML. The SiT8102 and SiT8103 high-performance oscillators provide LVCMOS and LVTTL outputs. All devices provide the following features and benefits.
• Provides very high frequency safety of 25 PPM over industrial temperature ranges
• Provides 5-digit accuracy and a wide operating frequency range (SiT9102 – 1MHz~220 MHz; SiT8102 – 1MHz~200MHz, SiT8103 – 1MHz~110MHz) to allow easy programming of customer frequencies.
• Provides 1.8V, 2.5V, and 3.3V operation to support various FPGAs/processors and eliminates the need for level conversion components.
• Provides industry-standard footprints through 5032 and 7050 packages, and also supports 2520 and 3225 packages for SiT8102 and SiT8103.
• Provides excellent silicon reliability with an MTBF of 50,000,000 hours (10x improvement over quartz).
• Provides 50,000g shock and 70g vibration resistance (10x improvement over quartz).
• All devices are currently in mass production and are provided with a rapid delivery time of 3 to 5 weeks.

Datasheet:
SiT9102: http://www.sitime.com/products/datasheets/sit9102/SiT9102-datasheet.pdf
SiT8102: http://www.sitime.com/products/datasheets/sit8102/SiT8102-datasheet.PDF
SiT8103: http://www.sitime.com/products/datasheets/sit8103/SiT8103-datasheet.pdf

SiTime part number used on Xilinx platform
SiT9102AI-243N25E200.00000
SiT8102AN-23-25E-12.00000
SiT8103AC-23-18E-33.33333
SiT8103AC-23-25E-66.00000

Regarding Xilinx evaluation boards using the SiTime oscillator
Xilinx development kits provide an excellent design solution that significantly reduces development time and enhances productivity for system designs requiring high performance and serial connectivity.

• The Virtex-7 FPGA VC707 evaluation board (EVB) targets 10G-400G line card, OTN, and terabit switch fabric applications and uses SiTime's 200MHz SiT9102 for the system clock and 12MHz SiT8102 for HDMI.
http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/EK-V7-VC707-G.htm
• The Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 EVB is used in BTSs, high-end 3D TVs, and medical equipment. It targets IP gateways, etc., and uses SiTime's 200MHz SiT9102 for the system clock and 12MHz SiT8102 for HDMI.
http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/EK-K7-KC705-G.htm
• The Zynq-7000, which features dual ARM® processors, targets applications such as automotive, broadcasting, and industrial, and uses SiTime's 200MHz SiT9102 for the system clock, and 33.33MHz or 66MHz SiT8103 and 12MHz SiT8102 for HDMI, respectively.
http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/epp/zynq-7000/index.htm