AMCC Uses Green Hills Software to Accelerate 3ware RAID Controller Design

Comprehensive RTOS and Development Tools Solution Speed Time to Market

SANTA BARBARA, CA–(EMWNews – August 11, 2008) – Green Hills Software, Inc., the

technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time

operating systems (RTOS), today announced that Applied Micro Circuits

Corporation’s 3ware® storage division (NASDAQ: AMCC) uses Green Hills

Software’s real-time operating systems and development tools in its 3ware

9690SA SAS/SATA high performance RAID controllers.

“Over our many years of partnership, Green Hills Software’s solutions have

played a key role in improving our time to market by reducing our RAID

firmware development cycles,” commented Christophe Therene, director of

firmware engineering, AMCC. “Although we considered offerings from many

other vendors, we selected Green Hills Software for its world-class

debugging capabilities, its broad solution offerings, and the performance

and scalability of its RTOS products. Other key ingredients include Green

Hills’ robust and efficient C++ compiler and flexible pre-silicon virtual

prototyping environment. Green Hills’ broad, always-improving product

offering and knowledgeable and responsive technical support keep our design

teams very satisfied.”

“AMCC has broad scalability requirements across different processors and

footprints, the absolute reliability requirements expected of RAID devices,

stringent development and production cost pressures, and demanding time to

market goals,” commented David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer,

Green Hills Software. “By taking maximum advantage of Green Hills

Software’s industry leading technology portfolio, AMCC is maximizing its

return on investment in engineers and product development.”

About the 3ware 9690SA SAS Controller

AMCC builds on established 3ware SATA RAID leadership to introduce the

3ware 9690SA SAS controller, the new standard in Serial Attached SCSI RAID.

As SATA and SAS technologies converge, users look to 3ware SATA for price

and performance and to SAS for SAS/SATA connectivity with expansion up to

128 devices. The 3ware 9690SA delivers accelerated SAS performance and the

flexibility of internal and external connectivity. As SAS makes inroads

into the SCSI market, users will look to SAS to provide expanded

connectivity and greater scalability and to the 3ware 9690SA for peace of

mind.

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader in

device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS)

for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY® and

velOSity™ real-time operating systems, µ-velOSity™ microkernel,

IPv6-ready TCP/IP networking stacks, GateD® Layer 3 routing, compilers,

MULTI® and AdaMULTI™ integrated development environments,

DoubleCheck™ integrated static analyzer and TimeMachine™ tool suite

offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embedded

and high-reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in

Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit

Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

About AMCC

AMCC provides leadership semiconductor solutions to process, transport, and

store digital information for the world’s wired and wireless networks. As a

leading supplier of SAS and SATA RAID controllers with world-class

expertise in SONET and Ethernet protocol processing, PHY technology, Power

Architecture® based processors, and storage processors, our products are

the foundation of the IP Communications Revolution. AMCC’s 3ware SAS and

SATA RAID controllers deliver cost-effective, high-performance,

high-capacity storage for enterprises and consumers worldwide in

applications like disk-to-disk backup, near-line storage, network attached

storage (NAS), video, and high-performance computing. For further

information regarding AMCC please visit our website at http://www.amcc.com

or www.3ware.com.

Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, velOSity, µ-velOSity,

AdaMULTI, DoubleCheck and TimeMachine, are trademarks or registered

trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/or

internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective

owners.

Contacts: Green Hills Software Barbel French 805-965-6044 [email protected]