PL123-05N/-09N
Low Skew Fanout Buffer
Micrel Inc. • 2180 Fortune Drive • San Jose, CA 95131 • USA • tel +1(408) 944-0800 • fax +1(408) 474-1000 • www.micrel.com Rev 03/15/12 Page 1
FEATURES
Output fanout buffer for DC to 134MHz
Output Options:
o 1:5 output fanout with PL123-05
o 1:9 output fanout with PL123-09
Low power consumption for portable applications
Low input-output delay
Output-Output skew less than 250ps
Low Additive Phase Jitter of 60fs RMS
2.5V to 3.3V, ±10% operation
1.8V ±10% operation up to 67MHz
Operating temperature range from -40°C to 85°C
Available in 16-Pin SOP (PL123-09) and 8-Pin
SOP (PL123-05). Both are GREEN/RoHS packag-
es.
DESCRIPTION
The PL123-05N and PL123-09N are a low-cost
fanout buffers for distributing high-speed clocks with
low output to output skew and preserving low noise
properties. The fanout buffers accept an input from
DC to 134MHz and provide 5 or 9 outputs of the same
frequency. A typical PL123-09N application for driving
SDRAM in PC systems would use eight outputs to
drive two DIMMs, or four SO-DIMMs, with the re-
maining output used for driving an external feed-
back to a PLL. A typical PL123-05N application is
to fanout a low noise CMOS clock oscillator to 5
low noise CMOS clocks.
These parts are not intended for 5V input-tolerant ap-
plications.
BLOCK DIAGRAM AND PACKAGE PINOUT
REF
CLK1
CLK2
CLK3
CLK4
CLK5
CLK6
CLK7
CLK8
CLK9
1REF
CLK1
CLK2
VDD
CLK9
CLK8
CLK7
VDD
GND
CLK6
CLK5
GND
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
98
7
6
5
4
3
2
VDD
CLK4
CLK3
GND
SOP-16L
REF
CLK1
CLK2
CLK3
CLK4
CLK5
1REF
CLK1
CLK2
GND
CLK5
CLK4
VDD
CLK35
6
7
8
4
3
2
SOP-8L
PL123-05N PL123-09N