Silicon delay line for timing alignment
The DS1100Z-25+ is a 5-tap nonprogrammable silicon delay line from Analog Devices, delivering a total delay of 25 ns across the full chain with a tap increment of 5 ns. Delay to the first tap is 5 ns, and each subsequent tap adds another 5 ns, giving the designer five equally spaced timing references from one input edge.
What the delay line ratings mean for your timing budget
The 5 ns tap increment sets the resolution of the timing adjustment — each tap shifts the output by one increment, so the designer can align clock edges or strobe signals in 5 ns steps across a 25 ns window. The nonprogrammable function means the delay is fixed at manufacture; there is no external resistor or digital interface to trim it, so the part is a drop-in timing reference that does not require configuration code or calibration. Because the DS1100Z-25+ is a single independent delay line (one input, five outputs), it suits point-to-point skew compensation or pulse-width stretching where one signal path needs a known delay. The 25 ns total delay covers one full cycle at 40 MHz — useful for aligning data strobes in parallel bus interfaces running at that frequency.
For BOM planning, the part ships in tube packaging (standard for 8-SOIC), which is the common format for pick-and-place assembly in medium-volume production.