The ICS8501 is a low skew, 1-to-16 Differential Current Mode Fanout Buffer and a member of HiPerClockSTM the HiPerClockS family of High Performance Clock Solutions from ICS. The ICS8501 is designed to translate any differential signal levels to small swing differential current mode(DCM) output levels. An external reference resistor is used to set the value of the current supplied to an external load load/termination resistor. The load resistor value is chosen to equal the value of the characteristic line impedance of 50. The ICS8501 is characterized at an operating supply voltage of 3.3V.