Andes President Makes a Speech “Low Power CPU & Subsystem” in Linley Tech Mobile Conference
Andes President Frankwell Lin was invited to make a speech in Linley Tech Mobile Conference 2013 on April 17th at Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA, USA. Titled “Low Power CPU & Subsystem,” the speech was to introduce the audience to Andes Technology, Andes proprietary instruction set architecture AndeStar™, and AndesCore™ CPU IPs. Andes-embedded solutions were exemplified by N9-based mobile phones and Andes newly-launched low-power CPU, N705 (codename: Hummingbird), was also introduced in the speech. Aimed at low power mobile applications, the compact N705 achieves ultra PPA (power, performance, and area) and well demonstrates the superiority of Andes cores. Lin concluded that Andes has complete infrastructure and eco-system for SoC development and its solutions for mobile applications have gone into mass production.
New Ultra-Efficient Processor Core for Low Power Applications Andes’ N7 (Codename: Hummingbird) now available to the U.S. market
【Santa Clara, CA, April 17, 2013】 – Andes Technology (www.andestech.com), Asia’s leading supplier of licensable processor cores, today announced their newest, ultra power-efficient 32-bit processor series: the AndesCore™ N7. Codenamed “Hummingbird,” due to its compact size and energy efficiency, this family of small cores is derived from 8-years research by Andes’ Taiwan-based team. Customer applications include embedded processing devices that require low energy consumption, such as controllers for touchscreen, storage, hand-held devices, sensors, and for network connectivity applications like IoT (Internet-of-Things).
Andes’ President, Frankwell Lin, commented, “The N7 was created for SOC designs that have performance constrained by ultra-low energy consumption and a small size. By implementing our latest AndeStar™ V3m architecture in a 2-stage pipeline, the N7 is the most power-efficient member of the Andes family. As with all of our IP cores, N7 is fully supported by the an integrated GCC tools environment and comes with complete software development environment and libraries to increase productivity and reduce cost.”
In terms of efficiency, the N7 delivers an impressive 108 DMIPS/mW, which is 30% higher than products from other suppliers. It also incorporates new mechanisms that provide for acceleration of applications that utilize higher latency flash memory which improve memory access efficiency while leveraging the processor’s performance and power. The size of the AndesCore™ N7 can be as small as 12K gates. This makes it an ideal alternative to 8051 and other 8-bit processor cores, while delivering the programmability benefits of a 32-bit processor solution.
The N7 is being demonstrated in Linley Tech Mobile Conference on Apr 17th at Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara and at the GSA Silicon Summit on Apr 18th at Computer History Museum, Mountain View. For more information about the AndesCore™ N7 Series or any of our other low-power, high-performance IP cores and subsystems, please refer to www.andestech.com or contact us at america@andestech.com
Andes Technology to Bring Energy Efficient Processor Cores to the U.S. Market
Asia’s leading processor IP company expands business to the U.S.
【Santa Clara, CA, March 15, 2013】 – Andes Technology (www.andestech.com), Asia’s leading supplier of licensable processor cores, today announced plans to expand business and technical support to include U.S. semiconductor companies. Founded 8 years ago in the Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, Andes has been quietly developing and delivering a broad range of processor Intellectual Property (IP) cores and subsystems to leading chip companies across Asia. Products using their cores deliver more energy efficiency while consuming lower power than traditional core alternatives – but until now, these products have only been available to Asian semiconductor companies who have deployed Andes cores in many high-volume applications. Today, Andes will bring these innovative solutions to U.S. semiconductor companies.
The President of Andes Technology, Frankwell Lin, commented: “We are excited to be able to bring our world-class IP products to the U.S. Semiconductor industry. It has always been Andes’ first priority to help our customers succeed in reaching high-volume mass-production, by working in close proximity with the foundries to generate silicon-proven IP. With recent changes in the global IP market, we see a great opportunity to bring that customer-centric approach to U.S companies – and to help their success too.”
“The last few years have brought exciting changes to the processor IP industry,” observed Linley Gwennap, president of The Linley Group. “It’s interesting to see a processor IP company come from Asia to the U.S. instead of the other direction. By first succeeding in the high-volume Asian semiconductor market, Andes has built a solid infrastructure and positioned themselves to become a viable player on the world stage.”
Andes Technology comes to the U.S. after having quietly grown to become a major provider in the IP industry. Unlike other RISC processor architectures, which were designed for workstation applications, the Andes instruction set is defined for optimal power-performance efficiency in embedded control and processing applications. Andes CPU and MCU cores are already used in hundreds of millions of devices and they have design wins at more than 50 different semiconductor companies across Asia. The expansion to the U.S. will include product sales, service and support, including availability of full-speed development systems with Andes-based silicon onboard.
“IP cores have become part of all modern SOC designs,” declared Rich Warzyniak, Senior Analyst for ASIC & SoC at Semico Research. “We think that the next step in that evolution is to solve the larger problems of IP subsystems – especially if they can address the need for reducing power. Andes has already taken a leadership step in that direction by combining their low power processor cores into subsystems which include other key IP components, software and development tools. To support their customers, they have taken a very visionary approach and used it to win business across Asia.”
From tablets to televisions, storage to surveillance
Andes products were created based on actual customer needs. Used in applications ranging from low-power embedded controllers to high-performance network routers, Andes cores are always designed for optimal performance-efficiency. This also makes them ideal for emerging applications like IOT (Internet-of-Things) and embedded control. With a full range of Subsystem IP, silicon-proven test chips, development tools like GCC/Linux, and middleware support for standards like Zigbee – Andes is committed to servicing the needs of the large and small companies in the semiconductor industry.
To learn more about Andes Technology and their exciting line of low power and high performance IP cores please visit www.andestech.com or email us at: america@andestech.com
Andes announced to expand business and service to U.S. semiconductor companies, and to bring its innovation solutions to the U.S. market
Andes announced his plans to expand business and technical support to the U.S. semiconductor companies and bring its energy efficiency, innovation solutions to the U.S. customers. It also distributed a press release titled as “Andes Technology to Bring Energy Efficient Processor Cores to the U.S. Market” to the US market on Mar 14th 5am East Coast time. The president of Andes Technology, Frankwell Lin, commented, “We are excited to be able to bring our world-class IP products to the U.S. semiconductor industry… and to help their success too.”
