ABIT chooses fractional PLL from Cosmic Circuits for RF SoC

BANGALORE, INDIA & CAMPBELL, USA: Cosmic Circuits, a leading provider of analog and mixed signal ASICs, announced that ABIT, a Japanese fabless company that leverages signal control technology in the development of advanced LSI for communication technology developments and products, has licensed a fractional PLL from Cosmic Circuits.

Cosmic Circuits offers a broad portfolio of differentiated Analog IP cores in nanometer technology nodes covering Data-Converters, Analog-Front-End platforms for Wireless and Audio, Power-Management, Clocking and MIPI Interfaces.

Cosmic Circuits offers a complete matrix of clocking solutions which include system PLLs, specialty PLLs, crystal oscillators and silicon oscillators and has already taped-out designs in 28nm. As part of its specialty PLL offering, Cosmic provides low-jitter and Sigma Delta Fractional-N PLLs.

Sundararajan Krishnan, director of IP at Cosmic Circuits, commented: “We are very excited to engage with ABIT with our Fractional PLL. We have invested heavily in enlarging our PLL portfolio and given the range of applications and process nodes that our solutions cover, we expect to see many customers adopting our clocking solutions in the coming months.”

Takeo Hiyama, CEO of ABIT, added: “Our specifications for the PLL were stringent. After a thorough search, we zeroed-in on Cosmic Circuits who provided us with their test-chip validation module that allowed us to verify that the PLL would fit with our system requirements. We are delighted with the support we have received and plan to engage with Cosmic for our future needs.”