I had the pleasure to talk with Piyush Sevalia, Vice President, Marketing for the SiTime Corporation. SiTime Corporation is an analog semiconductor company which offers MEMS-based silicon timing solutions that replace legacy quartz products. With 85% market share and over 75 million devices shipped, SiTime is driving the $5 billion timing market's transition to 100% silicon-based timing. The company's configurable solutions enable its customers to differentiate their products with higher performance, reduced size and better reliability. The rich feature set and flexibility of SiTime solutions allows customers to consolidate their supply-chain, reducing cost of ownership and time to market. By using standard semiconductor processes and high volume plastic packaging, the company is able to offer the best availability and shortest lead times in the industry.
SiTime Corporation introduced its SiT530x family of Stratum 3 compliant silicon MEMS timing solutions that replace OCXOs and TCXOs. The SiT5301 and SiT5302 are targeted at telecom and networking infrastructure such as SONET and Synchronous Ethernet based core and edge routers, wireless base stations, IP timing and smart grid applications. The SiT530x family uniquely combines Stratum 3 stability with small size, low voltage operation and programmable features that allows customers to quickly and easily customize and differentiate their products. Piyush explained that SiTime's revolutionary technology integrates silicon MEMS and analog ICs to deliver innovative solutions. The quartz industry took decades to deliver this level of precision; SiTime, in 5 years, has broken through the same performance level. With our semiconductor expertise we have added unique features that offer additional value to the customer. With game-changing products like the Stratum 3 clocks, and the company's recently announced differential oscillators and VCXOs, SiTime is accelerating the adoption of silicon MEMS timing products. SiTime is also now addressing an oscillator market of $1 billion. The remarkable combination of performance, lower cost and ease-of-use has enabled the company to successfully convert over 500 customers away from legacy quartz products. "That a MEMS device can now replace OCXOs and TCXOs is a landmark that was considered unachievable for MEMS timing technology just a few years ago," said Jean-Christophe Eloy, CEO and founder of Yole Développement. "SiTime can now join a league of elite timing suppliers that service the highest performance applications. I think we can now safely say MEMS devices offer more features, higher performance and better value than quartz, which is driving the electronics industry's adoption of Silicon MEMS timing solutions." "With the new SiT530x Stratum 3 products, SiTime continues to set new benchmarks in performance, features and reliability," said Jeff Eastman, SVP Global Marketing and Asset Management Arrow Electronics. "SiTime's programmable architecture ensures that Arrow always has SiTime products in stock. Many of our customers already enjoy the benefits of SiTime's silicon MEMS solutions today. With Arrow's large global footprint and SiTime's unique technology, we are well positioned to accelerate the proliferation of SiTime's innovative timing products into all segments of the electronics market."
The SiT530x family consists of two devices - the SiT5301, which operates from 1 to 60 MHz and the SiT5302, which operates from 60 to 220 MHz. Both devices offer the following features and benefits.