Simplify designing your clock tree with Timing Experts from Silicon Labs

Designing clock trees can be tedious but a necessary task facing today’s high-speed network system designers.

Silicon Labs has invested in tools to make it fast and easy to design your entire clock trees in minutes without needing to take the time to become wizards for every spec and every device in the clock tree.

If any of the following challenges apply to you, Silicon Labs Clock Tree Expert tool is definately worth trying.

• Do you need to use timing ICs that require a diverse set of frequencies, formats and voltages?
• Are your clock specifications very difficult to meet due to high data rates?
• Does your project demand high cost-per-bit?
• Do you face compressed time-to-market requirements?

The new Clock Tree Expert, launched this week, is a web-based tool that makes timing architecture configuration easier and faster by automating the design of clock trees. You’ll no longer need to spend time researching timing topologies or have to remember every part number and spec for each component in the clock tree. Worrying about BOM count and time to market is a thing of the past with Clock Tree Expert.

So how does the Clock Tree Expert work?

The tool offers you 2 choices from the outset, a way to build your own tree (for those already an expert !) and a wizard that guides you through typing in your clock requirements (formats, frequencies etc.) The intuitive tool will generate a custom clock tree recommendation within minutes. From there you can save your designs, create a BOM list and customize parts.

RS stock a wide range of the Silicon Labs timing devices and development boards so you will be able to try out your design.

The Clock Tree Expert is the latest addition to Silicon Labs’ timing tools including Clock Builder Pro that are designed to simplify the entire timing customization process..

To check out the Clock Tree Expert for yourself go to http://design.silabs.com/

This is just the latest addition to Silicon Labs timing tools to make things easier, recently they also added Clock Builder Pro & Clock Builder Go available 

from http://www.silabs.com/products/clocksoscillators/Pages/clock-oscillator-utilities.aspx

Finally, if you still aren’t convinced this is the right solution for you they also offer a custom 48 hour clock tree recommendation service.

See http://www.silabs.com/products/clocksoscillators/Pages/clock-tree-configure.aspx