MC100LVE310

3.3 V ECL 2:8 Differential Fanout Buffer MC100LVE310 Description The MC100LVE310 is a low voltage, low skew 2:8 differential ECL fanout buffer designed with clock distribution in mind. The device features fully differential clock paths to minimize both device and system skew. The LVE310 offers two selectable clock inputs to allow for redundant or test clocks to be incorporated into the system clock trees. To ensure that the tight skew specification is met it is necessary that both sides of the differential output are terminated into 50 W, even if only one side is being used. In most applications all eight differential pairs will be used and therefore terminated. In the case where fewer than eight pairs are used it is necessary to terminate at least the output pairs adjacent to the output pair being used in order to maintain minimum skew. Failure to follow this guideline will result in small degradations of propagation delay (on the order of 10−20 ps) of the outputs being used, while not catastrophic to most designs this will result in an increase in skew. Note that the package corners isolate outputs from one another such that the guideline expressed above holds only for outputs on the same side of the package. The MC100LVE310, as with most ECL devices, can be operated from a positive VCC supply in LVPECL mode. This allows the LVE310 to be used for high performance clock distribution in +3.3 V systems. Designers can take advantage of the LVE310’s performance to distribute lo...