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To: J Fieb who wrote (997)	1/27/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

AMCC Introduces CMOS Quad FC Transceiver biz.yahoo.com AMCC Adds to Its SiliconHiway Family With Introduction of Industry's First CMOS Quad Fibre Channel Transceiver AMCC's Highly-Integrated Quad-Channel Transceiver Offers Best Combination of Power, Performance and Cost to Optimize Fibre Channel Switching Applications SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1999-- Leading high-bandwidth silicon connectivity solutions provider Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) (Nasdaq:AMCC - news) today introduced the S2076, the industry's first off-the-shelf, CMOS-fabricated, quad-channel transceiver for Fibre Channel applications. Designed to be used in high-speed serial data transmission over fibre optic or copper interfaces, each of the S2076's four channels operate at 1062 MHz in conformance with ANSI X3T11 Fibre Channel specification. The S2076 is AMCC's newest addition to its SiliconHiway(TM) family, and further paves the way toward low-cost, low-power, high-speed data communications across SANs and LANs. By bundling four channels into a single 23 mm x 23 mm 208-pin TBGA package, AMCC's S2076 quad transceiver is ideally suited for high-density Fibre Channel switching applications and data broadcast environments. The S2076 also suits designs with stringent power requirements because it dissipates only 2.3W from a single 3.3V power supply (575 mW per channel). ''The S2076 offers reduced power, cost and increased real estate benefits which further strengthens AMCC's position as the leader in multi-channel CMOS transceiver design for Fibre Channel applications,'' said Jack Basi, AMCC's director of marketing for datacom and computer products. ''Together with other AMCC SiliconHiway(TM) products, such as the S2064 quad-channel serial backplane, the S2065 quad-channel serial backplane with dual I/O and the S2066 quad Gigabit Ethernet transceiver, the S2076 exemplifies AMCC's commitment to providing our customers with high-speed, low-power, highly-integrated silicon solutions that establish a new price/performance equation in the industry,'' said Basi. Each of the S2076's four bi-directional channels perform framing for block encoded data, in addition to parallel-to-serial and serial-to-parallel data conversion, over fiber optic, twinax, coax or TLL-compatible interfaces. With a 1.9V differential output swing, each channel is capable of driving signal transmission over 30 meters of twinax cable. The S2076's transmitter and receiver support differential LVPECL-compatible interfaces to minimize crosstalk and maximize data signal integrity. Clock generation for the S2076 is performed by an on-chip transmit Phased Lock Loop (PLL) which synthesizes the high-speed clock from a 106.2 MHz (for 1.062 Gbps rate) or 53.1 MHz (for 531 Mbps rate) reference. Its on-chip quad receive PLL synchronizes directly to the incoming data stream for clock recovery and data re-timing. In addition, the S2076 also performs continuous downstream clocking from the receiver. The S2076 provides multiple clocking options for simplification of overall system design and increased applications flexibility. It can be configured to accept a reference clock of 1/10 or 1/20 the serial data rate. A clock output is derived from the PLL and is provided as a system clock for upstream circuitry, which eases the layout requirements and further minimizes jitter. AMCC's S2076 also features a local loopback mode for system diagnostics, and meets jitter generation of less than 0.2 UI (188 ps) and jitter tolerance of greater than 0.7 UI (660 ps) as specified in ANSI X3T11 Fibre Channel physical and transmission protocol standards. Pricing and Availability The S2076 quad Fibre Channel transceiver is currently in volume production, and is priced at $65 each in quantities of 100. AMCC designs, develops, manufacturers 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.

To: J Fieb who wrote (997)	1/27/1999 1:45:00 PM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Respond to of 4808

Fibre Channel Association Annual Summit Focuses on End User Issues; FCA Adds New Directors from CISCO, 3Com, HP, Sun, and Seagate biz.yahoo.com MOUNTAINVIEW, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Storage and networking leaders worldwide gathered last week in Los Angeles to attend the Fibre Channel Association's (FCA) Annual Summit meeting. Topics at the two-day conference focused on end-user issues such as interoperability, system management, and ease-of-use, as well as future trends and standards development. The FCA consists of more than 100 leading storage and networking providers that meet throughout the year to work on issues to speed Fibre Channel implementation. This year the FCA Board took a major leap forward and further solidified its leadership with additions of new directors from industry leaders: Scott Palmquist, Cisco Systems; Randy Meals, 3Com Corporation; Julian Elliott, Hewlett-Packard; Howard Alt, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW - news); and Nancy Kuehn, Seagate Technology (NYSE: SEG - news). They join second-year board members: Carla Kennedy, Ancor Communications (Nasdaq: ANCR - news); Dale Head, Amdahl Corporation; Kumar Malavalli, Brocade Communications; Dennis Talluto, Electronic Data Systems (NYSE: EDS - news); Clod Barrera, IBM; and Linda Reed, McDATAporrporation. Keynote speaker, George F. Ackels, EDS vice president of the centralized systems management service line, said, ''Fibre Channel has revolutionized the storage industry. It's the infrastructure of the future, and the Fibre Channel Association is the driving force that will put the pieces together to deliver a solution to end users.'' Other key presentations highlighted the rapidly growing worldwide acceptance of Fibre Channel technology, including market updates by Paul Talbot of FCA-Europe and Yuichi Arai of FCA-Japan, who are voting liaison board members to the FCA in the U.S. The FCA Annual Summit also kicked off a number of initiatives for 1999, including end-user seminars, interoperability efforts, tradeshow participation, and website enhancements. For more information on the FCA or for membership information go to fibrechannel.com. Media can contact Mary Miller at 612-932-4071 or marym@ancor.com