Port Synchronizer for IEEE 1588
Frequency and Time/Phase
8A34012
Datasheet
▪ 7 differential / 14 single-ended clock inputs
• Support frequencies from 1kHz to 1GHz
Overview
The 8A34012 is a port synchronizer for frequency and time/phase
for equipment that uses packet-based and physical layer-based
equipment synchronization.
• Any input can be mapped to any or all of the timing channels
• Redundant inputs frequency independent of each other
• Any input can be designated as external frame/sync pulse of
PPES (pulse per even second), 1 PPS (Pulse per Second),
5PPS, 10 PPS, 50Hz, 100Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 4kHz, and 8kHz
associated with a selectable reference clock input
The 8A34012 is a highly integrated device that provides tools to
manage timing references, clock sources, and timing paths for
IEEE 1588 and Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) based clocks. The
PLL channels can act independently as frequency synthesizers,
jitter attenuators, Digitally Controlled Oscillators (DCO) or Digital
Phase Lock Loops (DPLL).
• Per-input programmable phase offset of up to ±1.638s in
1ps steps
▪ Reference monitors qualify/disqualify references depending on
LOS, activity, frequency monitoring and/or LOS input pins
Typical Applications
• Loss of Signal (LOS) input pins (via GPIOs) can be assigned
to any input clock reference
▪ Core and access IP switches / routers
▪ Synchronous Ethernet equipment
▪ Automatic reference selection state machines select the active
reference for each DPLL based on the reference monitors,
priority tables, revertive / non-revertive, and other
programmable settings
▪ Telecom Boundary Clocks (T-BCs) and Telecom Time Slave
Clocks (T-TSCs) according to ITU-T G.8273.2
▪ 10Gb, 40Gb and 100Gb Ethernet interfaces
▪ System APLL operates from fundamental-mode crystal: 25MHz
to 54MHz or from a crystal oscillator
▪ Central Office Timing Source and Distribution
▪ Wireless infrastructure for 4.5G and 5G network equipment
▪ System DPLL accepts an XO, TCXO, or OCXO operating at
virtually any frequency from 1MHz to 150MHz
Features
▪ Four independent timing channels
▪ DPLLs can be configured as DCOs to synthesize Precision
Time Protocol (PTP) / IEEE 1588 clocks
• Each can act as a frequency synthesizer, jitter attenuator,
Digitally Controlled Oscillator (DCO), or Digital Phase Lock
Loop (DPLL)
• DCOs generate PTP based clocks with frequency resolution
less than 1.11 × 10-16
▪ DPLL Phase detectors can be used as Time-to-Digital
Converters (TDC) with precision below 1ps
▪ Supports 1MHz I2C or 50MHz SPI serial processor ports
• DPLL Digital Loop Filters (DLFs) are programmable with
cut-off frequencies from 17Hz to 22kHz
• Switching between DPLL and DCO modes is hitless and
dynamic
▪ Can configure itself automatically after reset via:
• Internal customer definable One-Time Programmable
memory with up to 16 different configurations
• Standard external I2C EPROM via separate I2C Master Port
• Generates output frequencies that are independent of input
frequencies via a Fractional Output Divider (FOD)
• Each FOD supports output phase tuning with 1ps resolution
▪ 8 Differential / 16 LVCMOS outputs
▪ 1149.1 JTAG Boundary Scan
▪ 10 × 10 mm, 72-QFN package
• Frequencies from 0.5Hz to 1GHz (250MHz for LVCMOS)
• Jitter below 150fs RMS (10kHz to 20MHz)
• LVCMOS, LVDS, LVPECL, HCSL, CML, SSTL, and HSTL
output modes supported
• Differential output swing is selectable: 400mV / 650mV /
800mV / 910mV
• Independent output voltages of 3.3V, 2.5V, or 1.8V
▪ LVCMOS additionally supports 1.5V or 1.2V
• The clock phase of each output is individually programmable
in 1ns to 2ns steps with a total range of ±180°
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