Dallas-based Texas Instruments rolled out three chips for AI data centers on Oct. 12 at the Open Compute Project Global Summit, an industry conference on data center hardware.
The headline part is the ADC34DSO75, an analog-to-digital converter that takes 3 billion samples a second. TI says it can watch a data center's power rails around the clock and catch voltage glitches that last only nanoseconds, the kind of brief faults the company says existing monitoring tools tend to miss and that can cause unplanned outages. Because the monitoring is remote, TI said, operators would not need to send technicians with oscilloscopes to track down a fault.
The second part, the LMI800PS, is what TI calls the first isolated hot-swap controller built for 800-volt power systems. It protects the power path when equipment is plugged into a live rack, a job that previously took five separate chips. TI said folding in the bias supply and PMBus monitoring cuts the circuit board space needed by more than 60%. The part is rated for 5 kilovolts of reinforced isolation with more than 8 millimeters of creepage distance, and it works with both 800-volt and plus-or-minus 400-volt designs.
The third, the LMK6B, is a timing oscillator for high-speed networking gear. TI lists its jitter at 9.6 femtoseconds at 625 megahertz.
TI's announcement did not include pricing or customer names.
