For Immediate Release

Corelis Announces JTAG Emulation Support for
AMCC’s PowerPC 440EP Processor

Corelis’ CodeRunner-PPC4XX JTAG Emulator directly supports multiple
 PowerPC4XX processors in a system.

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Cerritos, CA, May 17, 2005 – Corelis Inc., a leading supplier of high-performance JTAG development tools for embedded microprocessors, announced today availability of its CodeRunner-PPC4XX JTAG Emulator for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation’s (Nasdaq: AMCC) PowerPC 440EP processor, ideally suited for a wide-range of applications including networking, imaging, and industrial control.  CodeRunner is an industry-leading tool for board bring-up, driver and firmware development, and software application debugging.

With CodeRunner-PPC4XX JTAG Emulator software, engineers have source-level debug capability with multiple-window support, allowing the developer to view source code, assembly code, local and global variables, memory, and register locations at the same time.  CodeRunner also supports the concurrent debugging of targets with multiple ICs and/or CPUs, providing the means to display windows for each IC/CPU on the screen simultaneously.  Offering extensive macro and scripting capability, CodeRunner can interpret command files written in a structured “C”-like language.

CodeRunner is available with PCI, USB 2.0, and Ethernet JTAG controllers to provide flexibility when designing host and target environments.  To meet the requirements of today’s most demanding throughput applications, these controllers use a high-speed boundary-scan controller architecture based on Corelis’ proprietary “Turbo Scan Engine.”  For those host environments where installing a PCI card is not possible or practical, Corelis offers the only high speed (480Mbps) USB 2.0 compliant JTAG controllers available for the PowerPC 400 series of processors.

With speeds of up to 533MHz, PowerPC Book E architecture and a rich peripheral mix, the PowerPC 440EP is suited for a variety of embedded applications.  Its extensive feature set and robust debug capabilities are geared to real-time and other high-performance operating environments.  AMCC’s 440EP supports double data rate (DDR) memory, a powerful floating-point operations unit, and USB interfaces, including USB 1.1 and USB 2.0.  A serial peripheral interface (SPI), allows full-duplex, synchronous data exchanges with other serial devices.  The 440EP also supports up to four UARTs in a variety of configurations.

"As PowerPC solutions continue to proliferate in the embedded market, increased access to system debugging tools is a must.” said Charlie Ashton, director of PowerPC software at AMCC. “We are pleased that Corelis’ emulators will be available to AMCC customers, providing a solution that enables developers to view and analyze critical information, thus decreasing their time-to-market.”

 “For today’s complex software designs, the ability to view program code, structures, variables, and the processor registers and memory in separate windows is necessary.  This means that a large amount of data must be transferred between the host and the target at each breakpoint,” said Bob Burrill, PowerPC™ product manager at Corelis. “Our direct support of AMCC’s PowerPC 440EP processor through our CodeRunner-PPC4XX JTAG Emulator, in conjunction with our high speed PCI and USB 2.0 JTAG controllers, offers both hardware and software engineers a unified and premier solution for those designs that demand the absolute highest level of testability, visibility and throughput.”

For a picture of the Corelis CodeRunner for AMCC's PowerPC 440EP, please click here.

For a photo of AMCC’s PowerPC 440EP please visit: http://www.amcc.com/BestInClass/440EP-Photo

About Corelis

Corelis, Inc. offers a complete line of high-performance JTAG and EJTAG In-Circuit Emulators for various CPU architectures. Corelis also offers a broad line of JTAG software and hardware products that combine exceptional ease-of-use with advanced technical innovation. Corelis’ ScanPlus and ScanExpress Boundary-Scan systems are used for interconnect testing as well as in-system programming of Flash memories, CPLDs and FPGAs. Corelis’ systems include a complete range of IEEE-1149.1-compatible boundary-scan testers for PCI, PC-Card, 10/100 LAN, USB 2.0, cPCI/cPXI, PC Card and VXI host interfaces. Corelis is well known for its outstanding customer support.

About AMCC

AMCC provides the essential building blocks for the processing, moving and storing of information worldwide. The company blends systems and software expertise with high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon integration to deliver silicon, hardware and software solutions for global wide area networks (WAN), embedded applications such as PowerPC and programmable SOC architectures, storage area networks (SAN), and high-growth storage markets such as SATA RAID. AMCC's corporate headquarters 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.

CodeRunner is a trademark of Corelis, Inc.  All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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