Design Services

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American Megatrends has been providing superior concept and design solutions for embedded PC customers throughout the world since the company was founded in 1985. In addition, AMI licenses standard product designs to PC customers. AMI understands how to put together superior products for maximum results in minimum time.

Full Turnkey Solution

As the leading BIOS manufacturer and with over 200 motherboard and RAID designs to its credit, AMI knows how to create a custom solution for your embedded system needs. AMI will see your solution through from the initial concept and design phase, through the hardware and software/firmware design, to the manufacturing of your product at the AMI in-house manufacturing facility. AMI will license designs for our standard products as well. We are able to provide our customers with a complete, "ready-to-go" design package to fit any need utilizing our standard products or customized designs. AMI is uniquely qualified to provide a full turnkey solution for our customers.

Design Parameters

With 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 ISA, EISA, PCI, PCMCIA, SVGA, LAN and both SCSI and IDE 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.

Hardware Design

AMI's extensive knowledge of hardware design is based on our creation of over 200 motherboard and RAID designs since the company's inception. We can create a hardware solution for you in the following areas:

• Motherboards, Plug-in Cards
  • x86
  • i960
  • MIPS R4000
• Memory
  • SRAM
  • SDRAM
  • Flash
  • ECC
  • Parity
  • Battery Back-up
• Bus Interface
  • ISA
  • PCI
  • I2C
  • IPMI
• I/O
  • LAN
  • SCSI
  • IDE
  • PCMCIA
  • Serial
  • Parallel
• ASIC Design
  • PCI (33/66 MHz, 32/64-bit)
  • Memory (SDRAM, EDO, FPM)
  • SCSI, IDE

Software Design

American Megatrends is currently the leading supplier of BIOS solutions to the PC market today. Our expertise in this area allows our engineers to develop software tested from the ground up. We can offer you software solutions for the following:>

• BIOS/Firmware
  • Porting
  • Customization
• Operating System/Real-Time Operating System
  • Porting
• Device Drivers
• Network/Web software
• GUI
• Utilities/Diagnostics

Research and Development Facilities

American Megatrends' research and development facilities currently employ over 200 engineers (for hardware, software, ASIC, firmware, BIOS and drivers) in four locations worldwide, including Norcross, Georgia; Fremont, California; Taipei, Taiwan; and Madras, India. Our state-of-the-art design facilities in these locations enable AMI to build a solution that fits our customers needs in record time. AMI's qualified engineers use CAD tools for ASIC design and simulation, as well as PCB routing and PCB simulation.

Manufacturing

AMI offers state-of-the-art manufacturing from Vitel, our in-house manufacturing facility. We use state-of-the-art SMT machines and are ISO 9002 certified. Our services include:

• Prototype build and full manufacturing
  • SMT, MGA, Fine pitch, double-sided
• ICT Test
  • Fixture and Program
• Functional Test
• Repair and Rework
• Package design
• Documentation services

Taking Care of Customer Needs

With a program management team assigned to meet customer needs, our customers are assured of quick response time and support. Included in our documentation and training process are package design, process documentation, tool design and fixture design.

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 and manufacturing in our U.S. facilities. 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 or visit our website at www.ami.com.