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Semiconductor IP

Silicon Creations

Low-jitter clocking from IoT through to the most advanced nodes

  • PLL
  • SerDes
  • LVDS
  • Bandgap
  • POR
  • Temp Sensor

Silicon Creations is an analog/mixed-signal IP provider with 500+ customers and 750+ fabricated ICs, named TSMC "Mixed Signal IP Partner of the Year" for nine consecutive years. Its PLLs are designed on a one-size-fits-almost-all principle, silicon proven on the most advanced processes at TSMC, GF, UMC, Samsung and Intel. Beyond clocking, it also supplies multi-protocol SerDes and a range of foundation analog IP.

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Products & capabilities

Silicon Creations portfolio

Clock synthesis

Ring PLL

A one-size-fits-almost-all 24-bit fractional-N synthesizer, offered in fractional, low-area integer, low-power IoT (32kHz reference), low-jitter, deskew and multi-phase variants for different application needs.

  • Silicon proven on the most advanced processes at TSMC, GF, UMC, Samsung and Intel
  • Integer and fractional modes, with options for SSCG, DPLL (jitter cleaning), multi-phase and deskew
  • IoT PLL with a 32kHz reference also available
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Ultra-low jitter

LC PLL

An all-digital LC-tank architecture available at 7nm FinFET (early silicon) and 28nm (in production at TSMC/UMC/SMIC), with 28nm long-term broadband jitter under 500fs RMS and power below 10mW at 7nm — for AFE, data converters, high-end PHY and RF clocking.

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High-speed interface

SerDes

Spans 100Mbps to 32.75Gbps, silicon proven at 6nm, supporting 30+ protocols across process nodes from 180nm to 12/16nm FinFET, built on a ring-PLL-based multiprotocol PMA with an ultra-low-latency variant under 13UI.

  • Vx1, DisplayPort, SGMII, XAUI, JESD204, FastLVDS, PCIe 1–5 and more
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Building blocks

Foundation analog IP

LVDS IO in production from 90nm CMOS to 16/12nm FinFET, taped out at 7nm FinFET, exceeding 190Mpixels/s and compatible with FPD-Link, FastLVDS, miniLVDS, Camera Link and OpenLDI, plus ring OSC, bandgap (BG) and power-on reset (POR).

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Temperature sensing

TV SensorNew

A new temperature sensing option, available as both BTSENS and RTSENS, with temperature accuracy to ±1.2°C (2-point calibration); the BJT variant covers 3nm and above, monitoring up to 16 points on-chip.

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