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To: crysball who wrote (43)	4/17/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: Leedm	Respond to of 1805

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday April 16, 12:04 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release AMCC Enhances SONET/SDH STM-1/OC-3 Market with Fully Integrated CMI Transmitter/Receiver AMCC's second generation silicon solution guarantees compliance with the bit-error rate requirements of the Bellcore, ANSI, and ITU-T standards for SONET/SDH STM-1/OC-3 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1998-- Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (Nasdaq:AMCC - news) Thursday enhanced their position in the SDH STM-1 market with the introduction of a line of fully integrated Coded Mark-Inversion (CMI) transceivers. The S3030 silicon-based transceiver chip delivers high speed timing and data signals for SONET/SDH or PDH based equipment. Moreover, the low jitter PECL interface for the serial data inputs and the TTL nibble clock interface guarantees compliance with the bit-error rate requirements of the Bellcore and ANSI standards for SONET/SDH equipment as well as the minimum jitter tolerance for clock recovery, as defined in the ITU-T E4 specification. The S3030 integrates all the functions of the previous generation S3015/S3016 with enhanced features. These new transceivers provide major active components on-chip for a coaxial cable interface, including analog transformer driver circuitry and equalization interface circuitry. Discrete controls permit separate selection of CMI or NRZ operation and analog (coaxial copper) or PECL (optical module) media interfaces. Both line loopback and diagnostic local loopback operation are supported. The S3030 transceiver implements the front end of STS-3, OC-3 or E4 equipment, and can be used with both electrical and optical interfaces. This is achieved through two independent VCO's which are synchronized to the local NRZ transmitted data and the received CMI data respectively. On-chip CMI encoding and decoding is provided for both the E4 (139.264 Mbps), and the STM-1/OC-3 (155.52 Mbps) interfaces. The chip offers designers of SONET/SDH or PDH-based equipment a compact package outline suitable for section repeaters, add drop multiplexors, broadband cross-connectors, and fiber optic terminators. ''AMCC offers it's customers the industry's best overall solution in terms of jitter performance, power consumption, price, size and temperature range,'' said Ken Prentiss, AMCC's product marketing manager for SONET/SDH/ATM. ''Our expertise in high speed mixed signal design has endeavored to achieve the stringent requirements for ITU jitter mask compliance. In addition, our (mu)Power bipolar process and our proven PLL designs provide our customers with greater design margin, more features and attractive pricing.'' With an industrial temperature range of -40(Degree)C to +85(Degree)C, AMCC's S3030 is also suitable for use in remote telecommunications equipment that require an extended operating range. Moreover, the CMI outputs, analog equalizer input section, and PLL sections are independently powered, achieving significant power savings when the device is used in single function applications. Pricing and Availability The S3030A is packaged in a 14mm by 14mm, 100 pin TQFP for commercial temperature sell for $49 at 100 piece quantity. The S3030B is packaged in a 14mm by 20mm, 100 pin PQFP for industrial temperature ranges and sells for $56 at 100 piece quantity. Samples of all chips are available now, with production release scheduled for Q2 1998. AMCC designs, develops, manufactures and markets high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon solutions for the world's communication infrastructure. The company utilizes a combination of high-frequency, mixed-signal design expertise and multiple silicon process technologies to offer IC products for the telecommunications market that address the SONET/SDH and ATM transmission standards and for the data communications markets that address the Gigabit Ethernet, ATM and Fibre Channel transmission standards. AMCC's core technologies also address ATE and high-speed computing needs. AMCC's corporate headquarters and wafer fabrication facilities are located in San Diego. Sales and consulting engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC and its products, write: Marketing Communication Department, AMCC, 6290 Sequence Drive, San Diego, Calif. 92121-4358; or call 800/755-AMCC (800/755-2622) or 619/450-9333; or fax 619/450-9885; or e-mail nwpr@amcc.com; or visit our Web site at amcc.com.