AMD Alchemy Solutions Development Board Kits Enable Rapid Design, Testing of Feature-Rich, Energy-Efficient Devices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2002 New Development Tools Leverage Industry-Leading Performance, Power Characteristics of AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Alchemy Solutions Processors AMD (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD) today announced the new AMD Alchemy(TM) Solutions DBAu1000(TM), DBAu1500(TM) and DBAu1100(TM) development board kits for its AMD Alchemy Solutions processor family. These new development board kits will assist customers in product development and in reducing time to market. "These development board kits provide customers with the tools they need to develop and test their solutions - both hardware and software components - in a cost-effective, efficient and thorough manner," said Phil Pompa, AMD's vice president of marketing for Personal Connectivity Solutions. "Not only will our new development board kits help shorten the customers' time to market and reduce development costs, they will enable the development of products that are rich in features, small in form and with long battery life," Pompa continued. "These board kits enable designers to fully embrace the functionality and industry-leading performance and low power consumption offered by our AMD Alchemy Solutions Au1000(TM), Au1500(TM) and Au1100(TM) processors." About the AMD Alchemy Solutions development board kits The AMD Alchemy Solutions development board kits are integrated hardware and software systems that leverage the high performance, low power AMD Alchemy Solutions Au1000, Au1500, and Au1100 processors. These MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. (R) technology-based, highly integrated system-on-a-chip (SOC) processors offer as much as 400 MHz (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. at 250 milliwatts - and are ideally suited for a broad variety of non-PC Internet appliance Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. applications. Such devices include automotive navigation/entertainment systems, computing devices such as web tablets and PDAs, home and small office networking and access devices such as gateways, routers and firewalls, and gaming devices. The development board kits are turnkey solutions that integrate processors, memory and peripherals onto a single board, along with debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. assist features and software. These board kits allow developers to test the Au processor family in a variety of demanding applications. Specific hardware and software features vary slightly from board kit to board kit, but include: Key Features -- 64MB SDRAM -- 32MB AMD MirrorBit(TM) Flash Memory -- AMD 10/100 Ethernet PHY(s) -- USB host/device connectors -- RS232 connectors -- Hot swappable PCMCIA slots -- Interface to static memory bus -- LED's for system activity and software debug -- EJTAG connections to the processor -- Yamon boot monitor and debugger -- Windows(R) CE .NET, VxWorks, and embedded Linux demonstration images -- Hardware design files -- Quick start guide Pricing and availability The development board kits are immediately available at $1,995 each. For more information, please go to the following link: www.amd.com/us- en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_6625,00.html. About AMD AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, Flash memory devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , AMD had revenues of $3.9 billion in 2001. (NYSE:AMD). AMD on the Web For more AMD news and product information, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. Additional press releases are available at www.amd.com/news/news.html. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, and combinations thereof, MirrorBit, DBAu1000, DBAu1100, DBAu1500, Au1000, Au, 1100, Au1500 and Alchemy are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies (MIPS Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.mips.com) Founded in 1984 as MIPS Computer Systems Inc., the company merged with SGI in 1992 and spun off as an independent entity once again in 2000. , Inc. in the U.S. and/or other jurisdictions. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, in the U.S. and/or other jurisdictions. Other product and company names used herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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