Press Release

Amphenol TCS Launches Backplane Design Web Portal

DesignLink® Features Interactive Tools to Help OEMs Accelerate Backplane Designs

Nashua, New Hampshire – March 27, 2008 – Amphenol TCS, the leading provider of high performance backplane interconnect systems, today announced the launch of its DesignLink® web portal. The secure Internet portal delivers a custom suite of proprietary engineering design tools and technical information specific to high-speed backplane design.

Amphenol TCS’s DesignLink portal was created to assist OEM system designers meet demanding requirements for improved performance, reduced entry costs, and faster time to market. The site features a set of unique, interactive design tools that allow designers to perform trade-off analysis at any phase of a backplane design cycle, thereby saving costly prototype spins and speeding their systems to market.

To create the DesignLink Portal, a team of Amphenol TCS engineers interviewed dozens of customers and industry experts. “We asked engineers to describe the obstacles they encountered during a new product design cycle and collected hundreds of requirements from that process,” said Chris Heard, Hardware System Architect for Amphenol TCS. “The result is a set of tools and information that can reduce engineering headaches early in the design process.”

Registered users can download in-depth technical documentation, such as application notes, schematic symbols and pcb footprints, drawings, signal integrity reports, and mechanical models for Amphenol TCS’s connector platforms, including XCede®, eHSD®, GbX®, VHDM®, NeXLev®, and Ventura®.

Use of the site is currently free-of-charge. Prospective users can request access on-line at http://www.amphenol-tcs.com/designlink.html or through an Amphenol TCS sales engineer.

Contact:
Ginger Bateman
DesignLink Product Manager
Amphenol TCS
603.879.3372
ginger.bateman@amphenol-tcs.com

About Amphenol TCS
Amphenol TCS (ATCS) is a division of Amphenol Corporation. Amphenol TCS is the leader in high-speed, high-density connection systems, designing and manufacturing the industry's leading high-speed, high-density connectors and backplane systems for application in the networking, communications, storage, and computer markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world's leading producers of electronic and fiber optic connectors, cable and interconnect systems. For more information, visit www.amphenol-tcs.com.