Andes Technology Corporation and Acer BYOC™ Announce Inter-Platform Support on Internet-of-Things Cloud Solutions for SoC Design

Andes Technology and Acer BYOC’s Efforts Will Enable IoT SoC Designers to Empower Their Products with Cloud Computing Capabilities Through Andes’ Knect.me™ Ecosystem

【Hsinchu, Taiwan】Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, and Acer BYOC™ (Build Your Own Cloud™) today announced plans to support each other’s Internet-of-Things cloud service solutions for SoC Design. Andes and Acer BYOC will each develop technology offerings that will enable SoC engineering design teams to build IoT SoCs with Acer cloud services using Andes Knect.me ecosystem resources. Andes will support Acer BYOC’s open platform and help expand Internet-of-Beings cloud ecosystem to the level of IC and SoC design. Acer BYOC will grow the vertical coverage of Andes’ CPU IP and IoT Knect.me ecosystem on their expanding cloud service platform.

“Both Acer and Andes offer complementing IoT solutions to the global market,” said Maverick Shih, President of BYOC Business Group at Acer Inc. “By offering inter-platform compatibility, we hope to create a mutually beneficial ecosystem for our joint customers.”
 “We admire how Acer has studied the progress of the IoT market trend over the long-term and devoted itself early on to building up cloud technology,” Frankwell Jyh-Ming Lin, President of Andes Technology Corporation, stated. “Our collaboration with Acer BYOC will enable Andes customers that design hardware and develop software for IoT SoCs the convenience of obtaining cloud service solutions plus underlying building blocks from Knect.me, our IoT ecosystem providing open-source and commercial solutions for modern connected devices based on the highly performance-efficient AndesCore™ processors. Customers will derive great benefit through this technology and business relationship.”

Cloud Service Platform and IoT Computing
Emerging services and innovative applications are raised by the development of ubiquitous computing and IoT devices. Equipped with sensing, connectivity, and intelligence, connected IoT devices change the computing paradigm. Legacy resources, such as storage and computation, are migrating from computing devices to the cloud for emerging networked applications. In addition to storage capacity and computing power, SoC designers for IoT applications also face the daunting task of integrating silicon intellectual property and software stacks as well as easy access to cloud services to complete real world usages of the IoT computing. The example of a fitness wearable illustrates how the cloud becomes a component of an SoC design. The SoC controls an intelligent sensor, but the cloud provides the sensor output.

The challenge is to build both device and service infrastructure. The inter-platform support of Andes and Acer BYOC combines the market proven elite software stack and hardware platform from Andes Knect.me ecosystem with the cloud service open platform from Acer BYOC. The Acer BYOC platform provides modular services such as music, file storages, media and document applications, and it also allows developers to rapidly bring new and innovative applications to IoT devices. By introducing such a flexible cloud platform on top of the rich device hardware-software framework, Andes and Acer BYOC enable developers to quickly bring smart connected applications to reality.

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Andes Technology Corporation Achieves 10,000 Installations of Its AndeSight™ Integrated Development Environment

Demonstrates Growing Market Adoption of Andes Powerful Cores which Minimize Manufacturing Costs, Reduce Power Requirements and Speed Time to Market

【Hsinchu, Taiwan】 Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today announced that it has achieved 10,000 installations globally of its AndeSight™ Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE). The powerful AndeSight IDE, which supports the entire range of AndesCore™ embedded CPU IP cores, enables Andes Technology’s customers to achieve minimum code size as well as highly reliable software code, while reducing customers’ time to market.

“AndeSight, with its complete and highly efficient features, has helped our customers to achieve cumulative shipments of over 1.4 billion SoCs,” stated Andes Technology Corporation President, Frankwell Jyh-Ming Lin. “This volume testifies to both the quality and adoption of AndeSight. Since AndeSight’s introduction, Andes Technology has continuously incorporated customers’ experiences, simplified development flow, and included new technology development, to provide superior software tool to the market. In the future, Andes Technology will continually enhance AndeSight to improve ease of use; to provide broad support of hardware, software, and system layers; and to boost higher efficiency and optimized code. In this way we will enable our customers to provide an even better product and service.”

“AndeSight implements a highly efficient compiler,” stated Charlie Su, Ph.D. Andes Technology Corporation CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D. “Across numerous applications, customers have found that our compiled code delivers best-in-class performance and compactness. Besides program development, code upgrading, and debugging, AndeSight also provides numerous advanced features. These include code coverage analysis, function profiling, performance meter, and a simple interface for customers to hook up their SoC-dependent GUI. With its rich features and friendly user interface, AndeSight has gained widespread user adoption. Today’s announcement of AndeSight reaching a 10,000-installation represents AndeSight has been used by more than 30,000 engineers, this milestone shows strong market endorsement of the stability and popularity of AndeSight. AndeSight serves both IC design houses and system companies, while enabling the latter to facilitate their market development.”

About AndeSight
Andes Technology began offering AndeSight in 2007. In 2015, the company released the latest AndeSight version 2.1.0, which includes four editions: STD, MCU, RDS and Lite. The STD edition supports the entire series of Andes Technology CPUs with functionality designed for high-end applications in the global SoC market. The STD edition’s Linux debugging features are well suited to the AndesCore D10, N10, and N13 cores. The MCU edition is designed for microcontroller development. It supports AndesCore N7, N8, E8, S8 and N9. The RDS edition is based on MCU edition but targeted at software developers at downstream customers of Andes Technology’s IC design company customers.

The Lite edition is a compact and free IDE targeting IoT and wearable applications. It can be downloaded from the knect.me™ website and is ideal for software evaluation. In addition, Andes Technology also collaborates with academia to provide AndeSight for uses in embedded system training courses, IoT applications, and SoC system. Through this collaboration program, Andes Technology aims to engender more software developers familiar with the AndeSight IDE and the AndesCore CPU families.

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Wave Semiconductor Selects Andes Technology for Embedded Core Wave to use N9 5-stage pipeline CPU Core

Andes’ Ease of SoC IP Integration, High Performance and Low Power Consumption 
All in a Compact Silicon Footprint Contributed to Winning the Business

【 San Jose, Calif.】– November 11, 2015 – Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based suppliers of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today announced that Wave Semiconductor (www.wavesemi.com) has licensed Andes low power, N9 32-bit, 5-stage pipeline CPU core and Andes AE210P peripherals for a new chip design. Wave selected the Andes core to provide boot–time configuration and continuous monitoring of Wave’s SoC operation. The ease of integrating the Andes N9 and peripherals into its larger SoC design, the native AXI4 support, high performance at low power consumption, and small silicon footprint contributed to Wave’s decision.

“We are pleased with our choice of the Andes N9 CPU core for our next SoC design,” said Richard Terrill, Vice President of Marketing at Wave Semiconductor. “We needed a small but powerful CPU to manage critical tasks at power-up boot and on-going observation of chip operation. The N9’s programming tools and support of the AXI bus interface fit our requirements nicely.  Its straightforward synthesis made for integration into our larger design and its small silicon footprint provided an added bonus.”

“Andes is thrilled that Wave Semiconductor chose our N9 CPU core for their new SoC design,” said Frankwell Lin, President of Andes Technology Corporation. “The N9 delivers high performance in a small gate count and on a low power budget. Its ability to provide low-latency vectored interrupt makes it very efficient for high performance real time monitoring. The N9’s ability to mix 16- and 32-bit instruction format enables compact code and the five-stage clock-gated pipeline contributes to the core’s 3.43 CoreMark/MHz performance, while its power management instructions conserve power.”

About Wave Semiconductor
Wave is a systems startup that has developed a low power, high-performance data flow computing platform to accelerate critical applications such as machine learning (CNN/DNN/AI), national/cyber security, unstructured search and big data analytics. Wave is developing a family of compute acceleration hardware ranging from OCP mezzanine to 1U appliances, all based on their proprietary Byte-Fabric™ programmable SOCs. By placing special emphasis on low-power computing, Wave offers best-in-class performance as measured in operations/Watt. The company is venture-backed (Tallwood and Southern Cross) and staffed with a cadre of industry veterans and entrepreneurs.
www.wavesemi.com

About Andes Technology Corporation
Andes Technology Corporation is a leader in developing high-performance/low-power 32-bit processors and its associated SoC platforms to serve the rapidly growing embedded system applications worldwide. The company’s broad and deep technical expertise in microprocessor, system architecture, operating system, software tool chain development, and SoC VLSI implementation enables designers to shorten their time-to-market with quality designs. In addition, Andes’ innovative configurable platform solution allows design teams to construct unique system architecture and hardware/software partitioning to achieve the optimal SoC.  For more information visit http://www.andestech.com.

 

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Andes Technology Corporation Launches New DSP+CPU Core Offering 134 Percent Higher Performance than Competing Alternatives for Low-Power SoC Designs

AndesCore™ D1088 CPU+DSP Combination Delivers Better Performance, Using Less Power with Half the Code Size of Competitive Offerings

【HSINCHU, Taiwan】Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of high-volume, low-power 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today announced the D1088, a 5-stage pipeline processor with integrated DSP offering 130 SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) instructions. When implemented in a 90nm low power process, the D1088 delivers 588 DMIPS, 134% higher than competing offerings. Measured using the popular Whetstone floating-point benchmark, the D1088 achieves 92% better performance. When running popular and comprehensive (over 200) DSP libraries, the D1088 is 116% faster with half the code size. Even with the above advantages, the D1088 still achieves smaller die area and less power per MHz than competing offerings.

“We’re proud of the results achieved with the D1088 DSP+CPU core,” said Dr. Charlie Su, Chief Technology Officer and Senior VP of R&D at Andes Technology Corporation. “With the increasing numbers of designs performing signal processing for smart sensors, image processing, motion detection, audio and video, the D1088 will provide a wide range of benefits, including better compute performance and power savings, as well as additional functionality. The D1088 easily interfaces with both AHB and AXI bus for simplified use in SOC devices. It comes with an optional memory management unit to support the Linux OS and an optional memory protection unit to support real time operating systems (RTOS).”

About the D1088
Tightly integrated Integer and DSP processor architectures are not new, but most were designed for applications where power was not as much a constraint as it is today. The new D1088 was designed with low power in mind. It contains functionality to enhance efficiency and reduce application code size to lower both power and cost. For example, to significantly boost the computational efficiency in matrix, filtering, Fourier Transform, and statistics functions, it can execute 4-way 8-bit, or 2-way 16-bit SIMD instructions in a single-cycle latency. In addition, for multimedia applications, the D1088 also supports 64-bit add, subtract, and multiply mixed computation.
For voice application, the D1088 offers left shift, right rounding and shift, most significant word, 32×32 multiply and specially designed 32-bit instructions to replace the lengthy 64-bit computation. To reduce code size and increase efficiency, the D1088 provides a Zero Overhead Loop instruction to offload loop branching.  To enhance parallel computational capacity, the D1088 provides left and right shift, minimum, maximum, and absolute value, besides traditional SIMD instructions such as add, subtract, and multiply.

Availability
D1088 is available immediately for customer uses and is fully supported by AndesSight™ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool chain.

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