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 22 patents granted and more than 50 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 totally 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 data converters (ADCs)
- Designs are hitting an Aperture Jitter Wall (Walden's Wall) created by an inaccuracy in the precise moment at which the analog signal is sampled. Gigasample and above data converters require multi-watt power dissipation.
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

Founded in Cambridge, England by John Wood, Multigig has had an extreme focus on developing products based on this revolutionary clock technolgy. To date, the Company has been provided with several million in financing by a small group of sophisticated investors.