ICs & Semiconductors

The ProXO+ family of compact, low noise, temperature-controlled clock oscillators from Renesas are high frequency, differential oscillators suited to fibre optic transceiver modules, accelerator cards, smart NIC cards, and networking equipment applications.

“The ProXO+ family delivers on all counts, offering tight frequency stability, great jitter performance, and high output frequency, which are critical features for communications, cloud and compute markets,” said Bobby Matinpour, vice president of timing products at Renesas. The level of programmability also enables the use of a single device for numerous designs, simplifying the bill of materials (BoM), sourcing and inventory management, he added.

The oscillators have a frequency stability ±3 parts per million (ppm) from -40 to +85 degrees C and programmable frequencies up to 2.1GHz. They exhibit 135fs typical phase jitter at 12kHz to 20MHz range.

The ProXO+ devices are available now for order in an eight-pin plastic package measuring 3.2 x 2.5mm.

Renesas also announced two industry-standard plastic packages for its existing ProXO XF 2.5 x 2.0mm oscillators. They are now also available in 3.2 x 2.5mm and 5.0 x 3.2mm packages.

The ProXO+ family can be combined with Renesas’ complementary clock buffers, power devices and microcontrollers, such as the Xilinx Kintex-7 Power and Timing, the CC-Link IE TSN, and the System on Module (SoM) with RZ/G2E. Renesas’

Renesas claims to provide the industry’s broadest timing portfolio to support the complete clock tree. It describes itself as a “one-stop-shop” for timing solutions, offering expertise and products from full-featured system solutions to simple clock tree building-block devices.

Renesas Electronics delivers embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices. Its portfolio of microcontrollers, analogue, power, and SoC products is available for a broad range of automotive, industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT applications.

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Wind River and Intel are jointly developing a 5G virtual radio access network (vRAN) which integrates the Intel FlexRAN reference software for systems using third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with built-in AI acceleration. Also included are Intel Ethernet 800 network adapters and the Intel vRAN dedicated accelerator ACC100 with Wind River Studio.

The collaboration will optimise new capabilities using the future next generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids).

Wind River Studio provides a cloud-native platform for the development, deployment, operations, and servicing of mission-critical intelligent systems. Its cloud infrastructure capabilities include a fully cloud-native, Kubernetes container-based architecture based on the StarlingX open source project for the deployment and management of distributed edge networks at scale. Studio is characterised by low latency and a small footprint infrastructure to allow the flexibility to grow new business and further improve total cost of ownership, explained Wind River. Intel FlexRAN is a vRAN reference implementation for virtualised cloud-enabled radio access networks.

Operators are pursuing vRAN for greater agility following the shift to cloud-native approaches, driven by 5G. There is the potential for vRAN to act as an anchor tenant for far-edge cloud but challenges include system integration, operational complexity for multi-vendor vRAN and edge cloud server performance.

Using the reference design, prospective customers and vRAN solution providers will be able to review evaluation packages consisting of Intel FlexRAN reference software pre-integrated with Wind River Studio to simplify and accelerate customer trials and deployments of 5G vRAN.

“As 5G opens up new opportunities across industries, there will be an increasing need to put greater intelligence and compute to the edges of the network, where new use cases evolve and thrive. As such, operators must adopt a low-latency far-edge cloud architecture to enable these new use cases in an intelligent, AI-first world,” said Kevin Dallas, president and CEO at Wind River.

“As operators realise the benefits and embrace a virtualised, software-defined architecture, our products, ecosystem, and years of experience help accelerate this shift to flexible, agile networks,” said Dan Rodriguez, Intel corporate vice president and general manager, Network Platforms Group.

Wind River delivers software for intelligent systems. Its technology has been powering the safest, most secure devices in the world since 1981. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio, supported by world-class global professional services and support and a broad partner ecosystem. The company says its software and expertise are accelerating digital transformation of mission-critical intelligent systems that will increasingly demand greater compute and AI capabilities while delivering the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

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