AMCC Purchases InTime's Suite of Floorplanners.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2002

InTime Software today announced that AMCC (Nasdaq:AMCC) (San Diego, CA) has purchased Time Architect, Time Planner and Time Builder for pre-RTL, RTL and gate-level floorplanning. AMCC designs, develops, manufactures, and markets high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon solutions empowering intelligent optical networks.

InTime systems raise IC design to a higher level of abstraction, and allow early timing closure orders of magnitude faster on huge SoC, ASIC and ASSP designs. Altogether the three systems expand and enhance the concept of the "Silicon Virtual Prototype" (SVP), a name that is being applied to a new generation of EDA tools that raise design planning to RTL.

"The InTime approach promises to address the capacity and timing closure challenges AMCC faces," commented George Serhan, VLSI Director, AMCC's Switch and Network Processing Division. "InTime deals with design planning even before RTL, capturing design intent and managing IP earlier. Their scalable technology generates a physical model from RTL, without needing to commit to gates. With load management issues being handled first, and at a high level but with accurate parasitics, then capacity, speed and timing closure can finally coexist."

InTime's "Physical First" Flow

InTime's "Physical First" methodology goes directly from RTL to a physical floorplan, and from that derives parasitics based on placement. Designing with the right parasitics at this early stage is a key distinction that enables InTime to deliver greater scalability, capacity and flexibility for design optimization by 3rd party synthesis and physical design systems.

About AMCC

AMCC designs, develops, manufactures, and markets high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon solutions empowering intelligent optical networks. AMCC utilizes a combination of digital, mixed-signal and high-frequency analog design expertise coupled with system-level knowledge and multiple silicon process technologies to offer integrated circuit products that enable the transport of voice and data over fiber optic networks. The company's system solution portfolio includes switch fabric, traffic management, network processor, framer/mapper, PHY and PMD devices that address the high-performance needs of the evolving intelligent optical network. AMCC's corporate headquarters and wafer fabrication facilities are located in San Diego, 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.

About InTime

InTime Software develops EDA solutions that use floorplanning techniques to achieve early timing closure for complex ASIC, SoC, and ASSP designs before synthesis and place and route tools are run. The products provide designers insight into timing, area and layout at the pre-RTL, RTL and gate level and improve the design flow into 3rd party synthesis and physical design systems. InTime is headquartered at 10131 Bubb Road, Cupertino, CA, 95014. The company has sales and support offices in Silicon Valley, Austin and Boston. InTime products are distributed in Japan through Innotech Corp., in Taiwan through Maojet, and in Korea through I&C Technologies. For more information please call 408/565-0111 or visit InTime's website at www.intimesw.com.

Acronyms:

ASIC     Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASSP     Application Specific Standard Product
EDA      Electronic Design Automation
IC       Integrated Circuit
RTL      Register Transfer-Level
SoC      System on chip

Note to Editors: InTime, InTime Software, Time Architect, Time Planner, Time Builder, Physical First, and RTL Timing are trademarks of InTime Software, Inc. All other trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.