Corporate Backgrounder

Multigig, Inc. is a startup company based in Scotts Valley, CA, that has developed a fundamental core advance in semiconductor circuit technology that provides unprecedented levels of performance at low power. With over 30 patents granted and dozens pending, the company's RotaryWave™ technology is being incorporated into new architectures for leading edge semiconductor products.

Multigig's RotaryWave™ circuit technology solves the problems of multi-watt power draw, skew and jitter in high-performance electronics in a completely new fashion, while still enabling the use of existing fabrication and design techniques. At its core is the first truly innovative semiconductor clock advance in decades.

Clock technology is a part of the total chip design dynamic that has recently become mission-critical in a number of areas. RotaryWave™ technology helps address all of the issues listed below:

High performance RF (VCOs, Frequency Control & Synthesis)
- Phase noise of clock partly determines density and bandwidth of channels in wireless and wireline applications. Applications are extremely sensitive to power dissipation, die area and interference from impinging fields - particularly in modern transceivers that support multiple simultaneous standards. High purity signal sources or wide bandwidth selection requires the use of discrete components or multiple ICs.
High performance digital (DSP, GPU, uP)
- Clocking is more than 50% of power dissipation
High Speed Serial IO
- Requires multi-phase distributed clocks with very low jitter