AMCC's Low-Cost Taihu PowerPC(R) 405EP Evaluation Kit Results From Strategic Partnership With UDTech.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) ) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AMCC) today announced the availability of the Taihu, a low-cost, easy-to-use evaluation kit for its PowerPC 405EP processor. Developed for AMCC by Beijing UD Technology Co., Ltd. (UDTech), the Taihu 405EP evaluation kit is the first product resulting from the strategic partnership between AMCC and UDTech, announced in October 2005. AMCC will be demonstrating the Taihu 405EP evaluation kit in its booth (#1802) at Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , starting on April 3. To accelerate customers' system development time, the Taihu 405EP evaluation kit provides users with a comprehensive set of resources including a custom-designed evaluation board, industry-standard software development tools, sample applications, system-level benchmarks and hardware design files. The kit allows customers first to perform a comprehensive evaluation of the 405EP processor and then to use the base hardware/software design as a starting-point for their own product development. "UDTech is proud to have produced the Taihu evaluation kit for AMCC," said John Liu, vice president of sales and marketing at UD Technology Co., Ltd. "We believe that the kit provides an excellent evaluation platform for AMCC's customers, while also demonstrating UDTech's capability to perform high-quality engineering on an aggressive schedule." The Taihu evaluation board is configured with the Linux operating system, but also provides the flexibility to load and run other PowerPC-compatible embedded operating systems. Schematics and layout files for the board are provided so customers can start their designs from a proven baseline. The board, with a 7" x 8" form factor, includes an AMCC 405EP processor operating at a clock frequency of 333MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. . Other features include 128MBytes of SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. , 32MBytes of Flash, two 10/100 Ethernet ports, a USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 1.1 device port, a PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). connector, a Cardbus connector, a JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) An IEEE standard for boundary scan technology. See scan technology. JTAG - Joint Test Action Group connector, a trace connector, Linux (2.6 kernel) in flash, and U-Boot boot firmware in flash. "Enabling our worldwide customers to accelerate time to market by initiating early software development with the Taihu 405EP evaluation kit presents a significant advantage during the processor evaluation phase," said Mike Claassen, technology director at Avnet. "The strategic partnership between AMCC and UDTech is already bearing fruit, and we eagerly await future innovative solutions created from this collaborative effort." "We are pleased to introduce the first product resulting from our strategic partnership with UDTech," said Charlie Ashton, director of PowerPC software at AMCC. "The new Taihu 405EP evaluation kit provides an excellent platform for customers to evaluate the 405EP processor and then to start their software development early, without waiting for their own target hardware to be ready. We are delighted that our partnership with UDTech has produced a product with such compelling advantages for our customers and we look forward to future cooperation on PowerPC-based platforms." Also included in the evaluation kit is kDiagnostics, a suite of advanced processor and board diagnostics from Kozio, Inc. This diagnostics package, which can be licensed by customers, performs in-depth testing of the processor and evaluation board. The Resource CD offers a wide range of sample applications that can be used as a starting-point for customers' software development, as well as various utilities to aid in system configuration. The sample applications include a web server, telnet server, FTP server and example game, while the utilities provide a detailed configuration report on the board as well as utilities for setting the IP address and MAC ID. Also included is an example flash file system for persistent storage and a Linux root file system build environment. The Resource CD also contains industry-standard benchmarks for use in processor performance analysis, including TTCP TTCP The Technical Cooperation Program (US DoD) TTCP Technology Transfer Control Plan TTCP Test Transmission Control Protocol TTCP Test Training Certification Plan TTCP Tailored Technical Criteria Profile TTCP Test Tcp , DBench, HINT, STREAM and MPEG-4. These benchmarks allow customers to perform a detailed analysis of the 405EP processor's performance using standard metrics without having to acquire and configure the benchmarks themselves. The kit software is provided to the user as source code as well as executables. To assist customers in selecting the optimum development environment for their 405EP-based projects, evaluation versions of best-in-class software tools products from DENX Software Engineering, Embedded Toolsmiths and Green Hills Software, Inc. are provided. Pricing and Availability AMCC's easy-to-use 405EP evaluation kit is designed for customer setup in 15 minutes or less and is aggressively priced at $750. The 405EP evaluation kit may be ordered from AMCC using part number EV-405EP-KIT-01. For more information, please contact your local AMCC sales office or visit http://www.amcc.com. About UDTech UDTech (Beijing UD Technology Co., Ltd.) is a "DOOR" company (Electronics Design House, ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) A contract manufacturer that uses its own designs and intellectual property (IP). See contract manufacturer. service provider, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and service provider, Value-Added-Reseller), focused on consumer electronics, communication and networking, computing platforms and mobile devices, providing product development kits and design services, as well as turnkey solutions and manufacturing services to customers worldwide. The products and technologies offered by UDTech are widely used in various digital broadband networking products such as digital voice and video device, broadband access networking devices, VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. and security gateways, comprehensive multimedia mobile terminals. UDTech has capabilities in embedded software/hardware design. Successful ODM/OEM experiences include SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. IP-PBX, home media gateway, IP phone, IP video phone, ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment , WiFi phone, VoIP gateway, SIP NAT (Network Address Translation) An IETF standard that allows an organization to present itself to the Internet with far fewer IP addresses than there are nodes on its internal network. server, firewall, VPN gateway and other areas. About AMCC AMCC is a global leader in network and embedded PowerPC processing, optical transport and storage solutions. Our products enable the development of converged IP-based networks offering high-speed secure data, high-definition video and high-quality voice for carrier, metropolitan, access and enterprise applications. AMCC provides networking equipment vendors with industry-leading network and communications processing, Ethernet, SONET and switch fabric solutions. AMCC is also the leading vendor of high-port count SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. RAID controllers enabling low-cost, high-performance, high-capacity storage. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com. 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