July 27, 2010 -- NXP Semiconductors today announced the availability of the industry's first high-speed multiplexer/switch to support USB 3.0 and PCI Express Gen 3, providing switching speeds of up to 8 Gbps. The CBTU04083 high-speed switch from NXP also supports other emerging standards including 6 Gbps SATA/SAS and DisplayPort v1.2 HBR2 at 5.4Gbps. By supporting these new standards, the NXP CBTU04083 multiplexer/switch makes it straightforward for system designers to address the demanding performance and signal integrity requirements of future high-end computing products. The CBTU04083 is now in volume production and samples are available immediately.

The NXP CBTU04083 is a 4 differential channel, 2:1 multiplexer/demultiplexer switch with speeds up to 8.0 Gbit/s. Using innovative design techniques, NXP has minimized the On-resistance and insertion loss of the switch so that attenuation is negligible, and has also minimized the channel-to-channel skew as well as channel-to-channel crosstalk.

Specifically, the CTBU04083 offers:

• Low intra-pair skew: 10 ps max between positive and negative bits
• Low inter-pair skew: 35 ps maximum
• Low crosstalk: -30db at 4 GHz

Further, the CBTU04083, which has a VDD operating range of 1.8 V ±10 percent, allows expansion of existing high speed ports while maintaining extremely low power consumption.

Go to the NXP Semiconductors website for product details.