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CAPABILITY SUMMARY
AMCC Product Development Strategy
VISION
AMCC’s product development strategy utilizes the
company’s expertise in the telecommunications, data
communications, ATE, computer and military mar-
kets. Initially ASSPs are defined based on key
industry standards. Then, as additional applications
are identified, derivative products based on the
“cores” of the original devices are introduced. These
“cores” are then made available for high volume pro-
prietary customer specific designs. This is all made
possible by our emphasis on using ASIC techniques
and methodologies to develop the original products.
It is AMCC’s vision to be the premier supplier of
silicon for high bandwidth connectivity solutions for
the worldwide 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 pre-
cision 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 trans-
mission 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 stan-
dards, RAID-based storage systems, serial
backplane for high performance switches and digital
video broadcasting 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.
AMCC Product Development Strategy
Consumer
Telecom
Auto
Standard
ASIC
Methodology
Industrial
Derivative
Military
Customer
Specific
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AMCC [ APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORPORATION ]
