Andes Technology Provides System Control Processor IP for Wave Computing’s Revolutionary Dataflow Processing Unit Design

Andes Technology Provides System Control Processor IP for Wave Computing’s Revolutionary Dataflow Processing Unit Design

Hsinchu, Taiwan. – June 19, 2017 – Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533), the leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high performance embedded CPU IP, today announced that Wave Computing’s revolutionary Dataflow Processor Unit (DPU) chip leverages Andes system control processor IP in its current generation design. Andes processor IP, bus fabric, peripheral IP, and complete open software development environment provided Wave’s design team a complete drop-in solution that reduced verification effort and cost.

“Building a leading-edge 6.7 GHz design at 16 nanometer with 16,000 processors demands an engineering team’s complete commitment and focus,” said Darren Jones, Vice President of Hardware Engineering at Wave Computing. “Andes drop-in solution and related software enabled us to easily integrate a complete system control subsystem into our SOC.”

“We are thrilled that Wave Computing, an existing customer, used Andes IP in its industry leading deep-learning DPU design,” said Charlie Hong-Men Su, Ph.D., Andes Technology CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D. “Andes IP provided Wave with a complete drop-in solution that can be programmed in software to perform housekeeping functions such as boot code loading, sequencing the power-up of the chip, and monitoring the heat profile of the chip as it carries out its tasks. And our feature-rich AndeSight Eclipse-based integrated software development environment provided Wave an efficient way to develop embedded applications for their Andes system controller IP with small code size and high performance.”


About Andes Technology Corporation
Andes Technology Corporation was founded in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan in 2005 to develop innovative high-performance/low-power 32/64-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/.

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Andes Technology and M31 Technology Collaborated on Optimal Power Efficiency CPU Implementation for IoT SoC Market

【Hsinchu, Taiwan】June 15, 2017 – Andes Technology Corporation (www.andestech.com), the first and leading supplier of licensable 32/64-bit processor cores in Asia, and M31 Technology (www.m31tech.com), a professional silicon intellectual property (IP) provider, today jointly announced that AndesCoreTM N705 CPU had adopted M31’s low-power silicon IPs and Power Management Kit (PMK) to provide a very low power consumtion CPU solution for SoC design in IoT and related low power applications.

The AndesCore™ N705 is a 32-bit low-power small-gate-count CPU IP core, a member of AndesCore™ processor families from Andes Technology. Designed with the AndeStar™ V3m architecture and a 2-stage pipeline, N705’s dynamic power consumption is less than 60% and its power efficiency is more than two times of same class of product on the market. It also supports features like PowerBrake and FlashFetch™ for additional power managment and performance improvement. 

Under this cooperation, M31 provides further low-power IP solutions in 40 nm process technology. These IPs including “Low Power Cell Library” and “Green Memory Compiler” for Andes N705 CPU at the physical implementation level:

•Low Power Cell Library, which includes the Standard Cell Library, the unique Low Power Optimization Kit, and the Power Management Kit (PMK).

•Green Memory Compiler, with “dual-rail memory operation” to help customers with “Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS); with “Power Gating Technology” to handle the “Static Leakage Power Consumption” in different operating modes.

“AndesCore™ N705 is well suited for SoC designs on IoT, biomedical, wearable and intelligent home appliances because its architecture was specifically designed to deliver high performance at very low power consumption.” said Dr. Charlie Su, Andes Technology CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D. “With M31’s low-power IP solution and Power Management Kit, it is able to reduce static power consumption by 50% from Clock-Gating mode to State Retention mode, and to reduce additional 75% from State Retention mode to Power-gating mode.”

“Together, the Power Management modes, the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS), the Low Power Cell Libraries and Memories, and N705’s power efficient architecture make possible this impressive advancement for ultra-low power processor implementation,” he said. “As the requirements for the standby time and the operating time are ever-increasing in each new generation of battery-powered devices, we will continue cooperating on the low power technologies to provide comprehensive solutions for the industry.”

Willis Shih, RD VP of M31 Technology, stated, “M31 is very glad to cooperate again with Andes Technology. M31’s low-power silicon IPs and Power Management Kit (PMK) provide a total solution for SoC design whether on dynamic power consumption or on static power consumption. These low power consumption features are particularly applicable for the IoT and wearable products market; helping enhancing customer competency and to satisfying the overall design requirements on IoT applications, such as low power consumption, low cost, and power management goals. In the future, M31 will continue its IP development and validation in advanced process technologies to provide distinctive silicon IP to the worldwide chip design community. These IP solutions will satisfy customer SoC design on various low voltage supply and low power consumption, in order to help customers grasp market opportunities through short design cycles, low manufacturing cost, and high product competitiveness.”

About M31 Technology
M31 Technology Corporation is a professional silicon intellectual property (IP) provider. The company was founded in July, 2011 with its headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan. M31’s strength is in R&D and customer service. With substantial experiences in IP development, IC design and electronic design automation fields, M31 focuses on providing high-speed interface IP, memory compilers, standard cell library and ESD/IO library solutions. For more information please visit www.m31tech.com


For more information about Andes technology and its low power, high performance AndesCore™ Processor IPs, please refer to www.andestech.com  or contact sales@andestech.com

For more about M31 low-power IP solution and PMK kit, please visit www.m31tech.com or contact sales@m31tech.com
 

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Andes Technology Corporation the First Mainstream CPU IP Provider to Adopt RISC-V Expands Product Lineup to offer 64bit Processor IP

Complete Solution Builds on the Customer-Proven AndesStar™ Infrastructure to Reduce Time to Market and Design Risk for Companies Seeking 64-bit SOC Solutions

San Jose, California. – May 9, 2017 – Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of high performance, low-power, small embedded CPU cores serving 2-billion SoCs, today announced a new generation of the AndeStar™ architecture.  In the process, Andes becomes the first mainstream CPU IP provider to adopt RISC-V, the open RISC Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) developed at the University of California Berkeley. Andes ISA, called AndeStar™ V5, supports 64-bits and the widely known RISC-V ISA as its subset and will bring the open, compact, and modular RISC-V into mainstream SoC applications. The AndeStar infrastructure, evolved over the past 12 years includes advanced features such as CoDense™, PowerBrake, and StackSafe™, and application-specific architecture extensions such as Custom Extensions, DSP Extensions and Security Extensions, in addition to strong compiler optimizations for the optimal performance and code size.  Adding 64-bit capabilities to Andes existing families of IP cores will satisfy new SoC’s requirement for addressing memory over 4GB in applications such as high capacity storages, large-scale networks, deep learning and AI systems. Leveraging Andes’ history of industry leading performance-to-power ratio, SoCs with AndeStar™ V5 based cores will be able to run efficiently at high frequency. For example, the new V5 AndesCore™ NX25 in a typical configuration will deliver over 1GHz (in “worst case” conditions) with area of only 67K gates and with power consumption as little as 17 µW/MHz in a TSMC 28nm process.

“Time-to-market is a major concern in every SoC design and one task that slows design progress is writing RTL code simply to integrate a collection of standard IP blocks and then spending an equal or greater amount of time verifying the new code” said Charlie Hong-Men Su, Ph.D., Andes Technology CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D. “With the new AndeStar™ V5 architecture, we provide a complete solution for 64-bit embedded SoC designs by bringing RISC-V compliance together with Andes’ successful line of AndeStar™ V3 IP cores, convenient features (such as CoDense, PowerBrake and StackSafe) and architecture extensions (such as Custom Extensions, DSP Extensions and Security Extensions), standard Andes IDE software toolchain with comprehensive extended features, SoC peripherals, hardware developing platforms, service and support.  Collectively, this helps to satisfy needs of design teams by significantly improving the product quality and reducing time-to-market and risk for production-ready 64-bit SoC designs. When Andes started to plan AndeStar™ V5, we considered the full scope of supporting an extended ISA, enabling customers to leverage fertile RISC-V ecosystem while maintaining the strengths we accumulated over time.”

Differentiation of AndeStar™ V5 Solution
Andes is the first mainstream CPU IP provider to adopt RISC-V. The AndeStar™ V5 architecture is fully compliant with RISC-V while bringing extended (superset) features unique to Andes and providing full support of the AndeSight IDE development tools.  This approach offers customers a way to develop 64-bit software in the same convenient environment as in V3.  In addition, the powerful Andes Custom Extension™ (ACE) environment greatly simplifies the task of extending application-accelerating instructions for V5 by automatically generating all necessary development tools and housekeeping RTL code, and automatically verifying custom logic against its defined behavior. Furthermore, products based on AndeStar™ V5 will support the extensive line of silicon-proven Andes SoC peripherals including the Andes System Control Platform and have the benefit of Andes extensive validation for use with industry-standard EDA tool and libraries.  Furthermore, AndeStar™ V5 provides support for addressability of greater than 4GB, AXI 64-bit interface, GCC compiler and GDB debugger which had being validated by strict industrial and Open Source test suites. Therefore AndeStar™ V5 is the comprehensive solution for customers to achieve optimum performance for their products and to shorten their development cycle.

Availability
AndeStar™ V5 is available now, the first AndesCore™ based on AndeStar™ V5 – called the NX25 – will be available the third quarter of this year. Also available will be the AndeSight™ IDE that supports integrated development environment for AndeStar™ V5-based SoC, pre-integrated System Control Processor platform with a configurable interrupt controller with up to 1023 interrupt sources, Andes ADP-XC7 FPGA development board, and Andes High-value Service and Support. 

For more information, e-mail info@andestech.com. 

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SecureRF and Andes Technology Join Forces to Deliver Quantum-Resistant Security Solutions for Constrained IoT Devices

Provides Fast, Ultra-Low-Energy Authentication and Data Protection

Shelton, Conn., United States and Hsinchu, Taiwan – May 8, 2017 – SecureRF, a leading provider of quantum-resistant security solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), and Andes Technology, the leading Asia-based supplier for high performance, small gate count and low-power 32/64-bit embedded CPU cores, today announced they have partnered to offer fast, quantum-resistant security for constrained IoT devices. This collaboration enables companies to use AndesCore™ secure processor in combination with SecureRF’s asymmetric (public-key) cryptosystems. Andes’ secure memory protection and tamper-resistance protection provides shield against attacks. SecureRF’s authentication and data protection solutions provide strong protection for IoT devices that are lightweight, compact, and require ultra-low-energy consumption.

Low-resource 32-, 16-, and 8-bit IoT devices are often deployed with little or no protection because most security solutions overwhelm available memory and power. Many security solutions also require a network connection and ongoing administration of a universal key or password database. These databases are subject to their own security risks, and can be extremely impractical to manage, particularly for high-volume industrial and consumer devices that may be distributed worldwide.


SecureRF’s asymmetric solutions, which include the Ironwood™ Key Agreement Protocol and Walnut Digital Signature Algorithm (WalnutDSA™), provide strong and fast security that will protect IoT devices even when quantum computers become available and render currently-used methods obsolete. Based on Group Theoretic Cryptography, SecureRF’s cryptographic protocols are at least 60 times faster than ECC, and consume up to 140 times less energy. Furthermore, there is no need to manage a database or maintain a network connection.

Andes’ 32-bit AndesCore™ S801 security processor and SecureRF’s security solutions are particularly well-suited. S801 uses a secure memory protection unit (SMPU) to isolate and protect different users/applications based on security privilege levels. S801 also provides unique tamper-resistance protections to shield against physical fault-injection attacks and side channel attacks. Its instruction/data/address scrambling, secure interruption and secure debugging features defend against hacks targeting all possible CPU interface.

“Partnering with SecureRF enables us to address the rapidly-growing need for high-performance authentication and data protection solutions that work efficiently in constrained environments,” said Frankwell Lin, president, Andes Technology. “This joint endeavor allows companies developing smart cards, smart appliances, wearables and other low-resource IoT applications to completely protect their users with an economical, silicon-based IP solution that is easy to implement. To further speed up and conceal SecureRF’s efficient algorithms, the powerful Andes Custom Extension™ (ACE) supported by extensible AndesCores such as E830 can be used to automate the design of special custom instructions.”

“Widespread consumer acceptance of IoT devices will be challenging until manufacturers make strong authentication and data protection the rule rather than the exception,” said Louis Parks, chief executive officer, SecureRF. “Our quantum-resistant cryptosystems combined with AndesCore™ processors offer manufacturers a competitive edge by enabling them to provide their customers with peace-of-mind that their information and device access are fully protected.”

For more information on SecureRF’s security solutions, call +1.203.227.3151 or email info@securerf.com.

To learn more about Andes Technology’s 32/64-bit embedded CPU cores, call +886-3-6668300 or email hllin@andestech.com.

About SecureRF
SecureRF Corporation (securerf.com) develops and licenses quantum-resistant, public-key security tools for low-resource processors powering the Internet of Things (IoT). The company’s authentication and data protection solutions are highly efficient when compared to techniques like ECC and RSA. SecureRF delivers ultra-low-energy, fast, and small footprint solutions ideally suited for 32-bit, 16-bit, and even 8-bit devices.

SecureRF security solutions are used to address wireless sensors, NFC, Bluetooth, and RFID tags as well as embedded platforms including FPGAs, microcontrollers, and ASICs. Software Development Kits, RTL, and tools are available for a wide range of environments. The company also offers Veridify®, a comprehensive, cloud-based solution providing real-time connectivity via smart apps that make products and supply chains smart, secure, and visible.

About Andes Technology

Andes Technology Corporation (www.andestech.com) was founded in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan in 2005 to develop innovative high-performance/low-power 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.

In order to meet demanding requirements of today’s electronic devices, Andes delivers configurable software/hardware IP and scalable platforms to respond to customers’ needs for quality products and faster time-to-market. Andes’ comprehensive CPU includes entry-level, mid-range, high-end, security extension, custom instruction extension and DSP extension families to address full range of embedded electronics products, especially for smart and green applications.

SecureRF Media Contact:

Joanne Kelleher

marketing@securerf.com

203‐227‐3151

Andes Technology Media Contact:

Hsiao-Ling Lin

hllin@andestech.com

+886-3-6668300

SecureRF, LIME Tag, Veridify, and Securing the Internet of Things® are trademarks, service marks or registered trademarks of SecureRF Corporation.

AndesCore and Andes Custom Extension are the trademarks of Andes Technology Corporation.
 

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Andes Technology Corporation Records a Cumulative 2.0 Billion SoC Shipments Containing Its CPU IP Since Inception

Enjoying 10-Fold Growth in Unit Shipments Since 2013, 
In 2016 Alone, the Company Reported 430 million SoC Shipments Containing Its CPU IP

Hsinchu, Taiwan. – April 3, 2017 – Andes Technology Corporation (TPE:6533), the leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today announced that up to the end of 2016, the company has recorded a total of 1.9 billion SoCs containing its CPU IP. As of today, this number has already grown to above 2.0 billion. In 2016, the company reported 430 million SoCs shipped worldwide containing its CPU IP. The 2016 shipments alone represented over 20 percent of the total SoCs shipped. From 2013 to 2016, the company has enjoyed a 10 fold growth in shipment volume of IP cores in SoC devices.

Andes President, Frankwell Jyh-Ming Lin declared “After several years of steadily increasing unit shipments growth, our customers are now in large volume production.  More importantly, they continue to license our IP for next generation versions of their designs. The result is that Andes is seeing steadily increasing growth in royalty income and expect this trend to continue going forward. Andes’ customers’ SoCs are shipping in a wide range of very high volume applications including WiFi, Bluetooth, touch screen controller, sensor hub, MCU, SSD controller, USB3.0 storage, and more.”

Andes is also making inroads into the next generation of high volume designs now coming onto the market. These include automotive IoT and Innovative ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). The company is targeting other markets including robotics, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), voice recognition and deep learning, where the company reported last year a design win with innovative deep-learning start-up Wave Computing of Campbell, California.

Since 2005, Andes Technology has steadily developed highly efficient, low-power 32-bit embedded processors and associated SoC development platforms to shorten its customers time to market. In addition, the company continues to innovate next generation CPU architectures driven by existing and new customers’ requirements and functionality demanded by rapidly evolving applications such as AR/VR, ADAS, and deep learning.


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/.

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Andes Technology Corporation Goes IPO On the Taiwan Stock Exchange

【Hsinchu, Taiwan.】– Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today made an initial stock listing of 40,611,915 shares at a price of NT$65.10 per share. The shares began trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE)—the driving engine of Taiwan’s economic growth—on March 14, 2017, under the TWSE ticker symbol “6533.TWO.” Proceeds from the offering will be used to expand the company’s R&D effort to fuel Andes’ international expansion into the U.S. and Europe and to increase its competitiveness in China, Korea, and Japan.

“In its short history, Andes Technology Corporation has reached a major milestone with its listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange,” stated Andes Chairman, Ming-Kai Tsai. “Reaching this landmark is not an easy task, although we knew it required patience in IP product and business development from the beginning. I am glad to see Andes has now achieved initial success in the embedded processor IP industry.” Andes President, Frankwell Jyh-Ming Lin declared, “Andes has several sources of revenue, including, among others, license fees to acquire the rights to use our CPU IP and royalty income on the sale of all semiconductor devices containing our IP. While the number of licensees has grown steadily since our founding, the increase in royalties has been significant, growing 10 fold from 2013 to 2016 and increasing 60 percent in the last quarter of 2016. This reflects our customers’ success with their products containing our IP.”

About the IPO Process on the TWSE
To become listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, a company such as Andes, must have a net worth, in both its most recent financial report and in its financial report for the most recent fiscal year, that is two-thirds or greater of the share capital stated on its financial report. At the time it applies for listing, a company’s paid-in capital must be NT$300 million or more and it must have 20 million shares or more shares publicly offered and issued common stock. Another requirement is the company has 1,000 or more registered shareholders. Excluding company insiders and any judicial persons, who hold more than 50 percent of the shares, there must be at least 500 registered shareholders.

The company must have successfully developed a product or a technology with market potential, and it must have obtained an appraisal opinion from Industrial Development Bureau in Taiwan, R.O.C. It must also have at least six months of proven trading records. This is accomplished by listing its shares on the TPEx Emerging Stock Board (ESB), where Andes has been trading since 2015. The company must be recommended in writing by a reputable securities underwriter. For the Andes IPO Horizon Securities Corporation provided this service.

The company must appoint independent directors, not less than two in number and not less than one-fifth of the total number of directors. Finally, company financial reporting must comply with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs).

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/.



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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

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AndesCore™ Ultra Low-Power, High Performance N705 CPU Core Wins Design Socket In Sino Wealth Electronic’s New Bluetooth Low Energy Chip Design

Andes Technology Corporation’s N705 Won Over Competitive Alternative
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/.
 

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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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Weltrend Adopts AndesCore™ in WT8893 Around View Monitor Video Processor Shipping in a Major Sports Utility Vehicle

Andes Solution Enables Weltrend WT8893 a More Cost Effective, Lower Power Alternative to DSP-Based Around View Monitor Designs

【Hsinchu, Taiwan.】 Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based suppliers of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, announced Weltrend Semiconductor, Inc. a leading fabless semiconductor company based in Hsinchu, Taiwan adopted AndesCore for their WT8893 Around-View Monitor (AVM) chip. The Andes 32-bit CPU core enables the Weltrend WT8893 AVM chip a more cost-effective, lower power alternative to the DSP core typically found in other AVM chip designs—a competitive advantage in a fast growing AVM processor market.

“The competition to win designs in advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) with major automotive electronics system supplier is intense and requires a technical edge,” said Chao-Chee Ku, Ph.D., Senior Director of Product Marketing of Weltrend Semiconductor. “Our WT8893, for example, includes CVBS (color, video, blanking and sync) input from four channel video decoders, four individual contrast/brightness adjustment function, input image position adjustment function to correct the camera assembling error, video image processing, fisheye correction, perspective adjustment, capability to combine front/rear/left/right four images to top view with adjustable image size and boundary fusion processing, as well as other functions. Andes exceeded our expectation in product and service. The core provides savings on area, power and better performance compared to the competitive offerings based on a digital signal processor to perform the same operations. We achieved a technical advantage with Andes’ 32-bit RISC CPU core.”

“From our founding, Andes Technology has architected its AndesCore processors based on input from customers, including Weltrend Semiconductor, a customer since 2009,” said Frankwell Lin, President of Andes. “Our synthesizable general purpose 32-bit embedded processor core N1337 used in WT8893 reflects this response to customer requirements. It comes with a coprocessor interface for FPU unit and software management multi-core instructions and with variety of configuration options including MMU, cache and local memory. It can be configured for performance sensitive applications running embedded Linux or other advanced operating systems. It can also be configured with a memory protection unit (MPU) for real-time operating system (RTOS) applications.”

Growing Market for ADAS 
In an article from Electronics360, “Outsiders’ Make Inroads in ADAS Market,” Akhilesh Kona, analyst for automotive semiconductors at Englewood, Colo. market research firm IHS, Inc. stated. “Chipmakers are developing solutions that will cut down the costs of semiconductor components for mass market volume.” As a result, the article noted that ADAS features such as around-view cameras for self-parking, once offered as a luxury vehicle option, are rapidly becoming standard in most cars across the globe. With this widespread adoption, IHS forecasts ADAS revenue from semiconductors and sensors will reach $4.0 billion by 2020. ADAS chip and sensor revenue was forecasted to grow to $1.9 billion in 2015, up from $1.6 billion in 2014.

About Weltrend Semiconductor 
Founded in 1989 in the “Silicon Valley of Taiwan”, the Science-Based Industrial Park (SBIP) in Hsinchu, Weltrend (TAIEX: 2436) is a leading fabless semiconductor company, also known as IC design house, specializing in the planning, design, testing, application development and distribution of mixed-signal/digital IC products across multiple applications. 
For more information about Weltrend Semiconductor, please visit http://www.weltrend.com

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