Revision 1.02 – April 12, 2007
S5920 – PCI Product: Capability Summary
Data Book
AMCC interface circuits, transceiver chips and
switches are designed to implement emerging network
technologies such as the ANSI Fibre Channel and
High Performance Interface (HIPPI) standards, the
ITU SONET telecommunications standard, the ATM
Forum LAN standard and IEEE Gigabit Ethernet stan-
dard. Jitter, speed, power and size are critical design
issues for all these circuits. AMCC’s devices are
based on its unique Bipolar process which has noise
isolation characteristics that enable best-in-class jitter
performances. The inherent physical structure of the
company’s process makes 1 to 3 GigaHertz (GHz)
data rates possible at low power. Consequently, the
low device power consumption of AMCC’s products
helps to minimize the cost and size of packaging.
specific customer needs for high performance clock
generation and distribution, clock synchronization and
de-skewing, frequency synthesis, and pulse shaping
applications. Offerings include low EMI, low skew
clock drivers and low jitter clock generators for high
performance server, work-station and RAMBUS™-
based applications.
Manufacturing Excellence
AMCC manufactures its own Bipolar and BiCMOS
wafers using proven processes and utilizes foundry
relationships for access to CMOS capability in its world
class fab located in San Diego. AMCC is proud of its
best-in-class status for lowest defect densities for like
sized fabs. This allows AMCC to provide a continuous,
predictable supply of product to its customers.
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Bus
Controllers
The Company follows a “semi-fabbed” manufacturing
strategy and has CMOS and BiCMOS foundry rela-
tionships in place with major domestic and
international semiconductor partners that provide for
significant additional production capacity. Wafer pur-
chases from strategic foundry partners both expand
capacity and provide alternate sources. Additional
high-volume assembly and test facilities are located
offshore.
Increasing bandwidth of high speed networks creates
a bottleneck at the desktop. One of the causes of this
problem is the latency associated with connection to
high speed peripheral equipment over LANs and
WANs. The 132 Megabyte per second backplane PCI
bus helps break the bottleneck.
AMCC has developed the industry’s first line of gen-
eral purpose master/slave controllers for the PCI bus.
These circuits provide a high performance single-chip
interface for add-on boards and adapter cards for
industrial, graphics, video and communications
markets.
AMCC’s “quick turn, semi-fabbed” manufacturing
approach blends together the strengths of both the
“fabbed” and “fabless” semiconductor strategies.
Fabbed advantages include the security of total in-
house control and time to market. Fabless advantages
include multiple sourcing and allows the company to
focus investment on new high performance products.
Precision Clock and Timing Products
AMCC provides a line of high precision clock and tim-
ing standard products for exacting system designs.
AMCC has also tailored clock and timing devices to
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