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AMCC Product Development Strategy
AMCC’s product development strategy utilizes the
company’s expertise in the telecommunications, data
communications, ATE, computer and military markets.
Initially ASSPs are defined based on key industry
standards. Then, as additional applications are identi-
fied, derivative products based on the “cores” of the
original devices are introduced. These “cores” are
then made available for high volume proprietary cus-
tomer specific designs. This is all made possible by
our emphasis on using ASIC techniques and method-
ologies to develop the original products.
It is AMCC’s vision to be the premier supplier of silicon
for high bandwidth connectivity solutions for the world-
wide networking infrastructure.
CORPORATE OVERVIEW
AMCC defines, develops, manufactures and markets
application specific standard products (ASSPs) and
customer specific integrated circuits (CSICs) for high
speed, high performance network interface applica-
tions. Utilizing CMOS, BiCMOS and proprietary
MicroPower Bipolar technology, AMCC provides preci-
sion circuits and interface solutions for Gigabit
Ethernet, ATM, SONET, Fibre Channel and PCI
markets.
Network Interface Products
High performance network interface encompasses a
wide range of applications, all requiring data transmis-
sion rates from >100 Mbit per second to over 9.6 Gbit
per second. These applications include Local Area
Networks (LAN), Hubs, Routers and Switches, Wide
Area Networks (WAN) based on SONET standards,
RAID-based storage systems, serial backplane for
high performance switches and digital video broad-
casting systems.
Since 1979, AMCC has designed and produced five
generations of semicustom bipolar ECL logic arrays
and two generations of BiCMOS logic arrays. AMCC
expertise includes its mixed ECL/TTL interface,
phase-locked loop (PLL), precision vernier, skew con-
trol, high-speed VCO and controlled edge rate TTL
outputs.
Figure 1. AMCC Product Development Strategy
Consumer
Telecom
Auto
Standard
ASIC
Methodology
Industrial
Derivative
Military
Customer
Specific
Datacom
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