EXHIBIT 99.1 Amendment To Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust Agreement For Employees of Sawtek Inc.

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                                 EXHIBIT 99.1

                                  Amendment
                                      To
Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust Agreement For Employees of Sawtek Inc.

          Effective June 18, 1997, the Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust
Agreement for Employees of Sawtek Inc. (the "ESOP") was amended to permit
participants and former participants of the ESOP to direct the trustee of the
ESOP to sell a portion of the Sawtek Inc. common stock allocated to such
participants' and former participants' company stock account in the ESOP
pursuant to this Form S-3 Registration Statement.

          The resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of Sawtek Inc. with
respect to this amendment are as follows:

          RESOLVED, that effective immediately, Section 9.1(a) of the ESOP is
deleted, and amended to read in its entirety as follows:

          (a)   Except as provided herein, and consistent with any funding
                policy and method determined by the Employer and consistent
                with Article IV, to invest, manage and control the Plan assets
                subject, however, to any direction of an Investment Manager if
                the Employer should appoint such manager as to all or a portion
                of the assets of the Plan in accordance with the provision of
                Section 8.1(c), and subject to any direction by a Qualified
                Participant pursuant to Section 3.7, or a Participant or Former
                Participant pursuant to subparagraph (e) below.

          RESOLVED, that effective immediately, Section 9.1(e) is added to the
ESOP to read in its entirety as follows:

          (e)   The Employer may elect from time to time, in its discretion, to
                permit Participants and Former Participants to direct the
                Trustee to sell a portion of the shares of Company Stock
                allocated to the Company Stock Account of such Participant or
                Former Participant. The Administrator, in its sole discretion,
                shall promulgate nondiscriminatory rules and procedures to
                carry out the foregoing. The proceeds of any such sale of
                shares of Company Stock shall be allocated to the Other
                Investment Account of the Participant or Former Participant.
                The Administrator, in its sole discretion, may permit
                Participants and Former Participants to direct the investment
                of their Other Investment Account among funds or options 
                designated by the Administrator and in accordance with any 
                rules and procedures established by the Administrator from 
                time to time.