The SiTimeMEMS oscillator provides the reference clock for the Xilinx 7 Series evaluation Kit

     SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company committed to fundamentally changing the $600 million clock market with silicon MEMS solutions, Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGas, Kintex-7 FPGas, and Zynq-7000 EPP evaluation kits have adopted SiTime's programmable high-performance MEMS oscillators.

     Xilinx uses SiTime's SiT9102 differential oscillator as the system clock, while the SiT8102 oscillator is used as the HDMI reference clock on the Virtex-7 FPGA VC707 evaluation kit and the Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 evaluation kit. In addition, the Zynq-7000 dual-ARM processor evaluation Kit uses the same two oscillators plus a SiT8103 single-ended oscillator.

     Steve Logan, Xilinx Simulation Marketing Manager, said: "Xilinx is committed to providing our customers with very high-performance solutions that are flexible, configurable and accelerate the design cycle. SiTime's programmable MEMS oscillators offer unmatched flexibility and configurability that complement our FPgas. We successfully used SiTime's MEMS oscillator in our previous generation kit, and we are expanding its use to all 28nm 7-series development platforms."

     Piyush Sevalia, vice president of Marketing at SiTime, said: "Xilinx and SiTime are market leaders in their respective fields, and we share a common goal - to deliver best-in-class programmable solutions that accelerate customers' design cycles while improving system reliability. Our flexible clock solutions offer unique features and reliability that are more than 10 times better than traditional quartz clock products. This is an example of SiTime's revolutionary MEMS technology, and advanced analog design is replacing quartz and driving the electronics industry toward MEMS-based clocks."