SiTime Introduces Complete Portfolio of MEMS Oscillators for Solid State Drivers

Analog semiconductor company SiTime has just introduced a complete portfolio of MEMS oscillators, targeted at Solid State Drives (SSDs).

Piyush Sevalia, vice president of marketing at SiTime, said, “ SSDs are experiencing exponential growth and are expected to ship over 50 Million units in 2013. SSDs offer many benefits over traditional hard disk drives -- they offer higher performance, they are more robust and reliable and they are smaller and lighter.”

Sevalia added, “The company’s MEMS oscillators are a natural fit for SSDs and offer significant benefits over legacy quartz oscillators such as 10 times better robustness and reliability, smaller and thinner size as well as lower power consumption.”

The company’s all-silicon MEMS oscillators can withstand shocks of 50,000 G, vibrations of 70 G. And in comparison to legacy quartz oscillators, they are 10 times more reliable, said company officials.

Company officials said that customers are using SiTime's SiT9102 and SiT9107 Differential Oscillators, and also the SiT8103 High Performance Single-Ended Oscillator in their SSD applications. And to almost all the major interface protocol used in SSDs such as SATA, SAS (News - Alert), Infiniband, and PCIe, the MEMS oscillators provide clocks.

Additional features include 100 percent drop in replacement for existing quartz solutions with no design or layout changes; configurable for any frequency between 1 and 800 MHz with 5 decimal places of accuracy; spread spectrum for EMI reduction for SATA, SAS and PCIe protocols is available on the SiT9002 and SiT9003; and more.

SiTime’s SiT9102, SiT9107, SiT9002, SiT9003 and SiT8103 are shipping in production now, according to company officials.

Earlier this year, the company announced the availability of a complete portfolio of MEMS oscillators for Tablet PCs and E-Book Readers.