True Circuits Introduces New Line of Phase-Locked Loop Hard Macros; Significantly Smaller PLL Sizes Achieved Without Sacrificing Performance

-- True Circuits, Inc. (TCI), a leading provider of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) for the semiconductor, systems and electronics industries, today announced the immediate availability of a new line of Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard macros that are one-third the die size of their current standard PLL products.

The die area of these new high-performance PLL hard macros is about 0.07mm(squared) in 0.13um generation process technologies. This area includes dividers and other required digital support logic, supply bypass capacitance, and block isolation. Like other True Circuits PLLs, these smaller versions are very flexible with wide frequency and multiplication ranges, and offer low-jitter performance over the entire operating ranges. Each hard macro also includes our LockNow!(TM) Technology to dramatically improve PLL lock times.

"These new PLLs have been carefully engineered to significantly reduce die area without compromising the performance and features offered by our current PLL products," noted Dr. John Maneatis, True Circuits' President. "This reduced area option will allow our customers extra flexibility in the placement of PLLs in their chip floor plans."

Pricing and Availability

True Circuits smaller size PLLs are available for immediate customer delivery. The hard macros are available for a per use license fee with no royalty fees. The license fee includes integration support from TCI to ensure a successful customer tape out. The deliverables include GDSII and LVS Spice netlists, behavioral and synthesis models, Library Exchange Format (LEF) files and extensive user documentation.

About True Circuits PLLs and DLLs

True Circuits offers a complete family of standardized clock generator, deskew, low-bandwidth and spread-spectrum PLLs and DDR DLLs that spans nearly all performance points and features typically requested by ASIC, FPGA and SoC designers. These high-quality, low-jitter, silicon proven hard macros are available for immediate delivery in a range of frequencies, multiplication factors, sizes and functions in 0.25um to 90nm CMOS processes from the world's leading silicon fabrication vendors. For more information about True Circuits products, visit www.truecircuits.com/tci_technology.html.

About True Circuits

True Circuits develops and markets a broad range of award-winning PLLs, DLLs and other mixed-signal hard macros for ICs for the semiconductor, systems and electronics industries. TCI's robust state-of-the-art circuits, methodical and proven design strategy and its close association with the world's leading silicon fabrication vendors, allow the company to quickly and reliably create new and innovative designs in a variety of advanced process technologies.

True Circuits is headquartered at 4962 El Camino Real, Suite 206, Los Altos, California 94022 and can be found on the web at www.truecircuits.com. Product inquiries can be made by calling the company directly at 650-691-2500.