Texas Instruments has rolled out three new semiconductor products built for the power and networking needs of artificial intelligence data centers. The parts cover remote power monitoring, high-voltage power distribution and precise timing for network gear.
The company showed the chips at the Open Compute Project's global summit in San Jose. The lineup is a data converter called the ADC34DSO75, a high-voltage controller called the LMI800PS and a timing part called the LMK6B.
The ADC34DSO75 samples at 3 billion times per second and is meant to watch a system's power rails from a distance. Texas Instruments said it can catch electrical events down to the nanosecond, analyze signals on the chip itself and spot brief power faults. The company said that could cut down on some trips to diagnose problems on site with tools such as oscilloscopes.
The LMI800PS is a hot-swap controller for 800-volt power systems. Texas Instruments said one LMI800PS does the work that used to take five separate integrated circuits, shrinking the board area needed by more than 60%. According to the company, it works with both 800-volt and plus-or-minus 400-volt designs and meets a 5-kVrms reinforced-isolation standard.
The LMK6B is an oscillator based on bulk acoustic wave technology. Texas Instruments listed its jitter at 9.6 femtoseconds at 625 megahertz and said it is aimed at network equipment moving data at close to 3.2 terabits per second.
