Datasheet
AD9553   
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The mode control bits establish the logic family and output pin 
function of the associated output driver per Table 19
. The logic 
families include LVDS, LVPECL, and CMOS. Because both 
output drivers support the LVDS and LVPECL logic families, 
each driver has two pins to handle the differential signals associated 
with these two logic families. The OUT1 driver uses the OUT1 
and 
OUT1
 pins and the OUT2 driver uses the OUT2 and 
OUT2
pins. However, the CMOS logic family handles only single-ended 
signals, thereby requiring only one pin. Even though CMOS 
only requires one pin, both pins of OUT1 and both pins of 
OUT2 have a dedicated CMOS driver.  
Note that the LVPECL mode of the AD9553 is not implemented 
using an emitter-follower topology, and therefore, a pull-down 
resistor is not needed (and should be avoided) on the output pins. 
Rather, it uses a CMOS output driver whose output amplitude 
and common-mode voltage are compatible with LVPECL speci-
fications. 100 Ω termination across the output pair is still 
recommended. 
The user has the option to disable (that is, tristate) either or both of 
the pins for OUT1 and/or OUT2 via the mode control bits (see 
Table 19 for the 001, 010, and 011 bit patterns). Alternatively, 
the user can make both pins active (see Table  19, Bit Pattern 000) 
to produce two single-ended CMOS output clocks at OUT1 
and/or OUT2. 
Table 19. Output Mode Control Bits 
Mode Control Bits  Logic Family 
Pin Function of the  
Output Driver 
000  CMOS  Both pins active 
001  CMOS  Positive pin active,  
negative pin tristate 
010  CMOS  Positive pin tristate,  
negative pin active 
011  CMOS  Both pins tristate 
100  LVDS  Both pins active 
101  LVPECL  Both pins active 
110  Unused  Unused 
111  Unused  Unused 
Note that the pin decoder for the OM2 to OM0 pins generates 
two sets of mode control bits: one set for the OUT1 driver and 
another set for the OUT2 driver. The relationship between the 
logic levels applied to the OM2 to OM0 pins and the resulting 
mode control bits appears in Table 20. 
Table 20. OM2 to OM0 Pin Decoder 
Pin OM2 to  
Pin OM0 
Mode Control Bits 
OUT1  OUT2 
000  101  101 
001  101  100 
010  100  101 
011  101  001 
100  100  100 
101  100  001 
110  001  100 
111  001  001 
This decoding scheme allows the OM2 to OM0 pins to establish a 
matrix of logic family selections for the OUT1 and OUT2 drivers as 
shown in Table 21
. Note that when the OM2 to OM0 pins select the 
CMOS logic family, the signal at the 
OUT1
 pin is a phase aligned 
replica of the signal at the OUT1 pin and the signal at the 
OUT2
pin is a phase aligned replica of the signal at the OUT2 pin. 
Table 21. Logic Family Assignment via the OM2 to OM0 Pins 
Pin OM2 to 
Pin OM0 
Logic Family 
OUT1  OUT2 
000  LVPECL  LVPECL 
001  LVPECL  LVDS 
010  LVDS  LVPECL 
011  LVPECL  CMOS 
100  LVDS  LVDS 
101  LVDS  CMOS 
110  CMOS  LVDS 
111  CMOS  CMOS 










