American Megatrends has been providing superior hardware, software and ASIC design solutions for its customers worldwide since the company’s founding in 1985. Thanks to its long history of innovation and industry leadership, AMI understands perfectly how to design superior products for maximum results in minimum time.
Design for the Global Market
AMI is geared to cater to the global market. Design work is conducted on a global scale, with cross-functional teams working together in AMI’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, the AMI Design Center in India, a large and talented engineering staff in Taiwan, and regional offices in Japan and other countries housing specialist teams. This collaboration ensures that AMI is responsive to customer needs, wherever the customer is located.
Complete Suite of Design Services
AMI also provides a complete suite of product development services, including:
Hardware
- Board design, Motherboards, PCI Express Adapters, Embedded Systems
- FPGA IP design and verification, Altera/Xilinx
- Chip design, verification, synthesis, timing closure
- Turn-key product development
- Chip sourcing
- On-site design services
Software / Firmware
- Application software
- System software
- Firmware development
- On-site design services
Full Turnkey Solutions
As the leading BIOS manufacturer and with over 200 motherboard and RAID designs to its credit, AMI provides full closed-loop services that encompass Motherboard/Embedded Systems Design, Verification, Validation, and Pilot Production. For ASICs, AMI can provide turnkey chip development services that cover every step of the design process, from design to fab tape-out to delivery of a working ASIC chip. AMI is uniquely qualified to provide our customers with a complete, "ready-to-go" design package to fit any need - utilizing our standard products or customized designs.
Design Parameters
With its across-the-board expertise, AMI can meet almost any computer design need. AMI has detailed expertise from motherboards to BIOS and from keyboard controllers to RAID controllers. Our knowledge base in design includes experience in X86, ARM, Power PC, PCIe, USB, LAN and both SAS and SATA disk input/output devices. AMI can also customize BIOS and diagnostics to fit almost any need imaginable.
AMI offers its customers the tightest coupling between BIOS and hardware. This combination offers maximum compatibility and minimum technical support expense. AMI achieves this goal by understanding chipset quirks from BIOS customizations, hardware quirks from software development, utilizing conservative timing analysis and programming measures and using rigorous quality assurance and compatibility testing.
Core Business Areas
AMI’s core business areas for its design services include:
System Design
- Hardware, ASIC Chip, FPGA, Software and Firmware Development
- Turn-key Development
IP Core Development
- In Verilog or VHDL
- Available IP Cores: DDR2 SDRAM Controller, PCI Express, AES, I2C, "Aavica" Video Compression Engine
Closed Loop Services
- Design, Simulation, Verification, Validation, Synthesis, Timing Closure
Turnkey ASIC Chip Development
- From design to fab tape-out to delivery of working ASIC chip
ASIC/FPGA Design Services
- AMI can assist with ASIC/FPGA Design and Board Development
- Can be done at AMI or onsite at customer facility
Taking Care of Customer Needs
With a program management team assigned to each project to meet customer needs, our customers are assured of quick response time and full support. Included in our documentation and training process are package design, process documentation, tool design and fixture design.
The AMI Design Team
The AMI Global Design team has a range of 2 to 24 years of design experience and a wide variety of expertise. AMI engineers are experienced with EDA tools, custom ASIC design, X86 motherboards and HBAs, RISC boards with software and applications such as GPS navigation, biometrics and USB Flash storage, and Xilinx, Altrea and other FPGA projects. Some of the many projects AMI has delivered for satisfied customers has drawn on our experience with:
- X86 boards
- High frequency and high performance board hardware design
- From product specification to the end hardware with necessary BSP
- Experience with different RISC and CISC CPUs, DSPs at high frequencies
- "SoC" integration, verification, synthesis and timing closure
- Design in Verilog or VHDL
- FPGAs such as Xilinx Virtex & Spartan, Altera Stratix and Cyclone series
- PCI, PCI-X, PCI-Express controller
- SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 SDRAM controller
- USB2.0, 1.1 and USB-OTG
- MIL-STD-1553B
- AMBA AHB, APB bus; IBM Coreconnect, OCP Bus
- SD/MMC, Flash Memory Models
- Video Frame processing
- Crypto: AES, 3-DES
Why Work with AMI?
AMI stands as a financially secure company on the cutting edge of technology. With offices worldwide, our company focuses on sharing the talents of our international team while concentrating all of our high level engineering. AMI specializes in providing superior solutions on time and on budget. For more information on AMI and its products and services, please call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI.
