Rochester Electronics recreates semiconductor die, chip, and package to provide a complete replication solution

Rochester Electronics Reinstates Manufacturing of AMCC's Standard Products

Primarily used in networking, telecom, and connectivity applications, these standard products are ideal for the following:

The S2004 facilitates high-speed serial transmission of data in a variety of applications including Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, serial backplanes, and proprietary point to point links.

The S2060A/D001 transmitter and receiver chip facilitates high-speed serial transmission of data over fiber optic, coax, or twinax interface.

The S2068 dual transmitter and receiver chip is designed to provide two channels of high-speed serial data transmission over fiber optic or copper interfaces conforming to the requirements of the IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet specification.

AMCC provided its product IP and design archive databases to Rochester, enabling the continuing manufacture and distribution of authorized devices through Rochester's Semiconductor Replication Process(TM) (SRP(TM)). Rochester's sophisticated SRP combines archive identification, tear-down of sample product, process match, source-to-target comparison, detailed SPICE analysis, and testing to the original manufacturer's specifications and beyond, to exactly match the form, fit, and function of the AMCC original devices.

It is with our permission and encouragement that Rochester Electronics provides an essential service for our customers by continuing to manufacture AMCC devices for as long as they are needed, said Alan Sorgi, director of IP portfolio management at AMCC. By making these critical parts available, Rochester will save OEMs the cost of having to re-design their systems or rely on suspect parts from unauthorized sources.

Rochester is pleased to be the contractually licensed continuing re-creation and manufacturing source of AMCC devices, said Paul Gerrish, co-president at Rochester Electronics. Our engineers use complex reverse-engineering techniques to re-create AMCC devices and provide a replacement that matches the original semiconductor's physical features, layer-by-layer and pin-for-pin, and is guaranteed to perform exactly as the original. Rochester's SRP is the cost-effective and time-saving alternative to system re-design when critical semiconductors are no longer available from authorized sources.