Cyberon and Andes Collaborate on Voice Interface Solutions for IoT Devices
【Taiwan Hsinchu】Conversational assistant or chatbot, an emerging application of Internet-of-Things, comprises microphones, SoCs for processing, connectivity, and the most important part – its cloud counterpart to serve as a big database and machine learning engine for its intelligent capability. This indicates a new way of interaction between machines and human beings and makes us excited about envisioning future applications. Its fundamental technology, voice recognition, benefits from the rise of computing power and technology developments, and is capable to run on a 32-bit MCU with kilobytes of memory footprint.
A technology partner of Andes Technology, Cyberon Corporation, develops CSpotter which is specifically designed for a new generation of always-on mobile and IoT devices, listening to ambient speech to detect and respond to a set of predefined words and/or trigger commands. CSpotter supports 34 languages, based on phoneme acoustic models. Developers can quickly create customized voice commands simply with text input, without requiring cumbersome voice data collection process.
“We aim to help developers quickly and easily add voice commands to a wide range of applications from smartphones, smart toys, wearables, automotive to IoT.” said Tai-Hsuan Ho, founder and CEO of Cyberon. “Over the past few years, Cyberon’s voice solutions have been shipped with embedded devices for more than 150 million units. One of the key factors to our success is that we are running on the most powerful yet cost-effective platforms, which is why we picked those powered by Andes cores. Secondly, CSpotter is one of the most accurate, noise-robust, and small footprint voice recognition engines, especially suitable for IoT and mobile devices of voice-activation capability. Finally, we offer multi-language flexibility which support 34 commonly used languages, enabling developers to create voice-enabled products that can be shipped around the world.”
“Many of our fabless customers have mass produced AndesCore-embedded solutions for touch panel controllers, gesture recognition, and sensor fusion applications,” said Charlie Hong-Men Su, Ph.D., Andes Technology CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D. “Our synthesizable 32-bit embedded processor cores and compiler technology address a wide range of requirements of minimum power consumption and memory usages, providing good power-performance-area tradeoff for a variety of IoT applications. For applications requiring voice interfaces, we provide solutions ranging from compact processors (such as AndesCore N705) for voice command processing to advanced processors with DSP/SIMD capabilities (such as AndesCore D1088) for noise reduction and echo cancellation. By joining forces with Cyberon on natural language interfaces, we are enabling user convenience with our technologies and hoping to boost the market penetration of intelligent electronics.”
About Cyberon Corporation
Cyberon Corporation, with its headquarter in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading embedded speech solution provider and supported by experts experienced in Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech technologies for tens of years. Cyberon’s speech solution is developed specifically for mobile devices, MCU, and DSP to provide users a convenient, natural and reliable user experience. For more information about Cyberon and CSpotter, please see:http://www.cyberon.com.tw.Prev
AndesCore™ Ultra Low-Power, High Performance N705 CPU Core Wins Design Socket In Sino Wealth Electronic’s New Bluetooth Low Energy Chip Design
By Providing 42 Percent Better DMIPS/mW Performance Efficiency
HSINCHU, TAIWAN– Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today announced that Sino Wealth Electronic, a Shanghai Informatization Office (SIO) top hi-tech enterprise for 11 years, has designed the AndesCore N705 CPU into their low energy Bluetooth chip. Andes won the design by providing 42 percent better DMIPS/mW performance efficiency over its major competitor for the business.
“Our IoT SoC customer required a reliable, small and low power Bluetooth solution,” said Zhisheng Guo Deputy General Manager Sino Wealth Electronic. “We have licensed several Andes cores for our chip designs because they provide the better solution over competitive alternatives. During our product development, Andes provided the immediate support our engineers needed to complete their designs within our tight project windows. Thanks to the contribution of Andes’ and our other supply chain partners, our BLE chip is now shipping in mass production.”
“We are thrilled to have Sino Wealth Electronic as a long standing Andes customer,” said Charlie Hong-Men Su CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D and Technical Marketing. “Sino Wealth has the reputation as one of the first IC design enterprises recognized by Shanghai Informatization Office (SIO) as a Shanghai hi-tech enterprise and has maintained the title for the past 11 years. As a partner, Andes has a responsibility to provide not only a superior CPU core to solve their design problem, but to provide them the service and support to help them maintain their high reputation.”
About AndesCore N705
The N7’s ultra-low power consumption and small size was created for performance constrained SoC designs, such as controllers for network connectivity applications including low energy Bluetooth in IoT (Internet-of-Things), storage, and sensors. The N7’s features the latest AndeStar™ V3m architecture and a 2-stage pipeline that helps deliver an impressive 168 DMIPS/mW, >40% better than competitive products. Its FlashFetch technology can boost performance of slow flash memory without consuming added power. The AndesCore™ N7 can be as small as 12K gates. This makes it an ideal alternative to the 8051 and other 8-bit processor cores, while delivering the benefits of performance-efficiency, programmability and compact code size of a 32-bit processor solution.
About Andes
Andes Technology Corporation was founded in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan in 2005 to develop innovative high-performance/low-power 32-bit processor cores and associated development environment to serve worldwide rapidly growing embedded system applications. The company delivers the best super low power CPU cores with integrated development environment and associated software and hardware solutions for efficient SoC design.
To meet the demanding requirements of today’s electronic devices, Andes Technology delivers configurable software/hardware IP and scalable platforms to respond to customers’ needs for quality products and faster time-to-market. Andes Technology’s comprehensive CPU includes entry-level, mid-range, high-end, extensible and security families to address the full range of embedded electronics products, especially for connected, smart and green applications.
For more information about Andes Technology, please visit http://www.andestech.com/.
ASolid Adopts AndesCore™ N9 for its AS2726 eMMC Controller to Deliver Competitive Market Advantage
Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of small gate count, low-power and high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, announced that ASolid Technology Co., Ltd., the leading NAND flash controller provider based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, has adopted the AndesCore™ N9 for its AS2726 eMMC chip. The Andes 32-bit CPU core enables the ASolid AS2726 eMMC chip to achieve a cost-effective and low power consumption flash controller solution, which allows ASolid a significant competitive advantage in the fast growing eMMC market.
“Our comprehensive solutions have enabled customers to realize enriched and stable performance enhancement in their products.” said Andy Yen, Senior Vice President of ASolid Technology. “For example, our AS2726 controller supports eMMC4.5, eMMC5.01 and eMMC5.1. Its high-performance asynchronous mode operation can reach up to 50MB/s and an even faster synchronous mode operation of 400MB/s. With its small footprint and low-power competitive advantage, the AS2726 provides an excellent product with high cost-performance value. During our engagement, Andes exceeded our expectation in product and service. The core provides savings on area, power and better performance compared to competitive CPU offerings performing the same operations. We achieved a technical advantage with Andes’ 32-bit RISC CPU core.”
“Andes is honored to provide our N9 CPU core to ASoild and to be their partner,” said Frankwell Lin, President of Andes Technology Corporation. “The N9 delivers high performance in a small gate count and on a low power budget. Andes will constantly provide high-quality customer service and precise technical support to maximize benefits for our customers.”
About the eMMC Market
The eMMC is an ideal flash storage solution for today’s mobile devices such as smart phones, digital cameras, multi-media, wearable devices, and tablets. According to the Global Industry Analysts, “The global market for eMMC is expected to reach 2.1 billion units by 2020, driven by the rapid growth in mobile device sales and robust increase in data consumption on mobile devices.”
About the N9
The AndesCore N9 Family of CPU cores implement v3, the AndeStar™ patented 32-bit RISC-style CPU architecture. The designer can configure certain parameters to adjust the CPU’s size, power, and performance. For example, the N9 core can be configured with 16 or 32 general registers, two or three read ports on the register file, one or two write ports, a fast or a small multiplier, a 24-bit or 32-bit address space, and different bus (APB, AHB, AHB-Lite, AXI) interfaces to connect to the rest of the system.
About ASolid Technology Co., Ltd.
ASolid Technology Co., Ltd. is a NAND flash controller provider and the top leaders in the flash controller market. ASolid’s product lines cover a wide range of SD/microSD controller and USB flash drive controller solutions, combined with the latest Wear-Leveling Algorithm, ECC and Bad Block Management technologies. For more information about ASolid Technology, please visit http://www.asolid-tek.com/
About Andes Technology Corporation
Andes Technology Corporation was founded in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan in 2005 to develop innovative high-performance/low-power 32-bit processor cores and associated development environment to serve worldwide rapidly growing embedded system applications. The company delivers the best super low power CPU cores with integrated development environment and associated software and hardware solutions for efficient SoC design
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