Imperas模拟器支持Andes Custom Extension™　加速特定领域应用软件开发

【台湾新竹、英国牛津】─ 2021年8月31日─ 32及64位高效能、可扩展RISC-V CPU处理器核心领导供货商、RISC-V国际协会(RISC-V International)创始首席会员晶心科技(TWSE: 6533) 和高效能软件模拟和虚拟平台的领导供货商Imperas Software Ltd.于今日宣布将合作范围拓展到整合开发多功能的Andes Custom Extension™ (ACE)和Imperas高速模拟器。此合作将使SoC设计团队能够利用ACE架构来共同设计新指令硬件和相关软件，在芯片生产之前便可以开始完整的软件开发。

在ACE的架构下，SoC设计者可以轻松且有效率地在Andes RISC-V处理器核心上定义新指令来加速目标应用程序，即透过ACE的简易脚本程序来描述指令的输入输出和功能，及使用ACE的精简Verilog来定义指令在RTL层级的实现方式。根据上述的设计数据，功能强大的COPILOT (Custom-OPtimized Instruction deveLOpment Tools)工具可以自动生成扩展晶心处理器所需的所有新组件，包括处理器的RTL、编译工具、调试器、整合开发环境和近似精确周期 (near cycle-accurate)的模拟器，以支持客制化的新指令。

当SoC架构师和逻辑设计人员着眼于加速他们的应用最花时间的部分，软件工程师则需要在增加新功能的同时，确保整个软件堆栈的功能性和稳健性。在SoC芯片完成设计生产并可用于全面开发之前，快速功能模拟器能让软件工程师开始撰写应用程序、除错和测试，而不需要受限于硬件开发的时程。藉由连结COPILOT产生的扩展模拟链接库，Imperas模拟器能如同手动撰写的模拟器一般，自动辨识新指令并模拟其功能。利用快速模拟器和相关工具，软件工程师除了可以进行全面开发，更可以提供回馈意见给硬件设计人员。

「晶心所有的RISC-V CPU 核心都是可以扩展的。ACE让SoC设计人员在不需要CPU设计的能力之下，就能在我们高效能的CPU核心上能轻松的新增客制化指令，来实现特定应用领域的加速，并提升SoC性能至新的水平，」晶心科技总经理暨技术长苏泓萌博士表示。「Imperas模拟器已经能够支持晶心的RISC-V CPU核心。我们很高兴能够拓展合作范畴，使ACE用户透过使用Imperas的快速模拟器，让软件工程师也可以从早期阶段就参与整个开发过程。」

「RISC-V提供了客制化扩展指令集的灵活性，在符合软件生态系统的同时，提供了系统架构工程师新的自由发展空间。」Imperas Software Ltd.执行长Simon Davidmann表示。「利用虚拟平台所建构的快速软件架构增强ACE设计指令的解决方案。所共同产生的平台可在芯片生产完成前，就提供了虚拟开发板。晶心和Imperas的合作旨在帮助客户和合作伙伴，以软件开发的速度来创新硬件灵活性。」

本次合作在ACE的解决方案中增加快速模拟器及虚拟平台的功能，SoC设计团队可利用晶心RISC-V核心处理器的ACE架构来新增客制化指令，并使用COPILOT工具立即自动生成所有必要组件。这些扩展组件包括处理器RTL、编译工具、调试器、近精确周期模拟器以及Imperas的快速功能模拟器。

關於晶心科技
晶心科技股份有限公司于2005年成立于新竹科学园区，2017年于台湾证交所上市(TWSE:6533)。晶心是RISC-V国际协会的创始首席会员，也是第一家采用RISC-V作为其第五代架构AndeStar™基础的主流CPU供货商。为了满足当今电子设备的苛刻要求，晶心提供了可配置性高的32/64位高效CPU核心，包含DSP，FPU，Vector，超纯量(Superscalar)及多核心系列，可应用于各式SoC与应用场景。晶心并提供功能齐全的整合开发环境和全面的软/硬件解决方案，可帮助客户在短时间内创新其SoC设计。在2020年，Andes-Embedded™ SoC的年出货量突破20亿颗，而截至2020年底，嵌入AndesCore™的SoC累积总出货量已超过70亿颗。更多关于晶心的信息，请参阅晶心官网 https://www.andestech.com，或追蹤晶心WeChat、Weibo、Bilibili、LinkedIn、Twitter以及YouTube、。 

关于Imperas 
Imperas 致力于嵌入式软件和系统的开发，并且是RISC-V处理器模型和虚拟原型解决方案的领导供货商。Imperas和开放虚拟平台(OVP)推进了开源模型，包含一系列处理器、IP供货商、CPU架构、系统IP及处理器和系统的参考平台模型，参考平台模型的部分从简单的单核裸机(bare metal)平台到启动 SMP Linux 的全异构多核系统。所有支持模型都可从Imperas网站www.imperas.com和开放虚拟平台(OVP)网站 www.ovpworld.org取得。

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Andes Technology And Cyberon Collaborate To Provide Edge-Computing Voice Recognition Solution On DSP-Capable RISC-V Processors

Press highlights:

  • Cyberon DSpotter, the voice wake-up and local command recognition solution, supports Andes RISC-V CPU families
  •  The local and offline command recognition provides users with a quick-response voice operation interface, protects personal privacy, and also reduces the development and maintenance costs of the device manufacturers.
  •  AndesCore™ D25F with DSP/SIMD P-extension instructions boosts the computing performance and efficiency for voice processing to provide competitive voice recognition and voice assistant solutions on edge devices

HSINCHU, TAIWAN – August 19, 2021 – Cyberon Corporation, a leading embedded speech solution provider, and Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533), a major supplier for high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores, announced their collaboration on the edge-computing voice recognition solution, Cyberon DSpotter, by exploring Andes DSP-capable RISC-V CPU cores such as the popular D25F and comprehensive software development environment to provide a cost-effective, high performance, and easy-to-deploy solution.

The development of AI technology has recently brought tremendous progress in speech recognition. In addition to voice assistant services based on cloud-computing architecture, there are growing demands for local voice recognition by edge-computing devices from the market. Locally executed offline command recognition provides users with a quick-response voice operation interface, protects personal privacy, and reduces the development and maintenance costs of the device manufacturers.

For many products that have a strong demand for voice control, such as wearable devices, home appliances, IoT devices, etc., low computing resource requirements and high recognition performance are important considerations. Therefore, Cyberon based on more than 20 years of professional experience, introduces its new generation algorithm, DSpotter, for voice wake-up and local command recognition.

Different from most solutions in the market, Cyberon’s DSpotter adopts phoneme-based acoustic model to improve customers’ product development efficiency. Developers do not need to collect a large amount of training corpus in advance. They can create the required commands by simply entering text. Based on the relevant foundation built over the past years, Cyberon has developed more than 40 global languages for DSpotter. It helps customers to introduce their products to the global market in a timely manner. Regarding the recognition performance, DSpotter has high accuracy and high noise robustness due to the strength of its acoustic model consisting of TDNN-F architecture. In addition, the algorithm has been well optimized by Cyberon to fit into general MCU platforms without using a dedicated neural network processor. In this way, manufacturers can provide products with voice interfaces through cost-effective hardware.

Furthermore, the performance of DSpotter is increased significantly by leveraging RISC-V DSP/SIMD P-extension (RVP) instructions on AndesCore™ D25F, a 32-bit RISC-V CPU core with highly optimized 5-stage pipeline. The RVP enables multiple data in integer registers to be processed in one single cycle, thus efficiently boosts the computations for voice, audio, image and signal processing. It also greatly improves performance for edge AI involving the above data types. The D25F is the first market-proven RISC-V RVP-capable processor, and has the most complete ecosystem in development tools, libraries for DSP and neural networks, and audio/voice codec.

“The AI technology of edge computing has gradually entered people’s lives,” said Alex Liou, VP of Cyberon Embedded solution BU. “Cyberon’s DSpotter algorithm helps developers to reduce development costs of voice recognition applications. We offer a convenient and easy-to-use tool to create customized commands of global languages. Developers can create various voice recognition applications efficiently to meet the strong and diverse demands of the market. The collaboration with Andes extends the application of DSpotter technology to RISC-V platforms and demonstrates excellent computing and recognition performances. It is hoped that it will bring more products with intelligent and convenient voice interface to people’s lives.”

”Intelligence is now in everyone’s daily life empowering not only by cloud computing but also by edge computing,” said Simon Wang, Technical Marketing Manager of Andes Technology, and in charge of RISC-V compute acceleration ecosystem. “Andes offers a comprehensive 32 and 64 bit RISC-V processor core series with high computation efficiency and low power consumption for general computing solutions. In addition, we provide AI solutions based on RVP, RVV and ACE instruction extensions with the support of Andes NN SDK and have been cooperating with partners to extend our solutions. We are excited to work with Cyberon to offer very competitive voice recognition and voice assistant solutions for edge devices based on the strength of AndesCore™ D25F, esp. its RVP support.”

About Cyberon Corporation
Cyberon Corporation, with its headquarter in New Taipei City, Taiwan, is a leading speech solution provider. Established in 2000, Cyberon has rich experiences in speech algorithm and application development. Its speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies have been widely adopted by IOT devices, home appliances, wearable devices, smart toys, automotive equipment, and enterprise customers. Cyberon provides a full range of voice solutions for embedded MCU/DSP, OS platforms, and server-based services, and is committed to providing users with natural and convenient human-machine voice interfaces. For more information, please visit http://www.cyberon.com.tw

About Andes Technology
Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and a main force to take RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020 and continues to rise. To the end of 2020, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 7 billion. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com. Follow Andes on Wechat, Weibo, and Bilibili! 

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IAR Systems extends development tools performance capabilities for Andes RISC-V cores

Latest version of IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V adds support for latest Andes RISC-V processor technology, including AndeStar™ V5 RISC-V Performance Extension

Uppsala, Sweden—June 23, 2021— IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, presented a new version of its professional development tools for RISC-V. With the latest release, the complete development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for RISC-V adds support for latest Andes RISC-V extension and devices, enabling maximized performance in RISC-V-based applications.

Through its excellent optimization technology, IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V helps developers ensure the application fits the required needs and optimize the utilization of on-board memory. With the support of the AndeStar™ V5 RISC-V Performance Extension, developers can use IAR Embedded Workbench to create applications with increased performance and reduced code size. The toolchain supports all Andes 32-bit V5 RISC-V cores, including the N22, N25F, D25F, A25, A27, N45, D45 and A45. The RISC-V Packed SIMD/DSP extension specification (RVP draft) and the corresponding intrinsic functions as well as Andes DSP libraries are supported.

“AndeStar V5 RISC-V architecture brings the unique and competitive value to our RISC-V customers,” said Dr. Charlie Su, Andes Technology President and CTO. “V5 offers full compatibility to the compact, modular and extensible RISC-V technology by supporting its standard instructions. In addition, it incorporates Andes-extended features already proven in 7+ billion AndeStar V3 processors, such as Performance extension and CoDense™ extension, to applications from edge to cloud. We welcome that IAR Systems provides full support to V5 processors and brings the benefits of IAR Embedded Workbench to the RISC-V community.”

IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V is a complete C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain with everything embedded developers need integrated in one single IDE. To ensure code quality, the toolchain includes C-STAT® for static code analysis. C-STAT proves code alignment with industry standards like MISRA C:2012, MISRA C++:2008 and MISRA C:2004, and also detects defects, bugs, and security vulnerabilities as defined by CERT C and the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). For companies working with safety-critical applications, IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V is available in a functional safety edition certified by TÜV SÜD according to IEC 61508, ISO 26262, IEC 62304, EN 50128, EN 50657, IEC 60730, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61511 and ISO 25119, delivering qualified tools, simplified validation and guaranteed support through the product life cycle.

More information about IAR Systems’ offering for RISC-V is available at www.iar.com/riscv.

IAR Systems Contacts

AnnaMaria Tahlén, Media Relations & Content Manager, IAR Systems
Tel: +46 18 16 78 00 Email: annamaria.tahlen@iar.com
Tora Fridholm, Chief Marketing Officer, IAR Systems
Tel: +46 18 16 78 00 Email: tora.fridholm@iar.com

About IAR Systems
IAR Systems supplies future-proof software tools and services for embedded development, enabling companies worldwide to create the products of today and the innovations of tomorrow. Since 1983, IAR Systems’ solutions have ensured quality, reliability and efficiency in the development of over one million embedded applications. The company is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden and has sales and support offices all over the world. Since 2018, Secure Thingz, the global domain expert in device security, embedded systems, and lifecycle management, is part of IAR Systems Group AB. IAR Systems Group AB is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm, Mid Cap. Learn more at www.iar.com.

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熵码科技与晶心科技合作将安全处理器PUFiot导入RISC-V AIoT安全平台

【新竹台灣】─2021年6月2日─致力于PUF (Physical Unclonable Function)安全解决方案硅智财的熵码科技与RISC-V硅智财领导厂商晶心科技（TWSE：6533），率先将力旺电子(TWSE：3529)与熵码科技共同开发的纯硬件安全处理器PUFiot，导入晶心科技具数字信号处理能力的D25F CPU及其应用平台AE350，并成为晶心科技AndeSentry™安全框架的一部分，为RISC-V芯片生态链带来更完整的安全解决方案。

晶心科技的AndeSentry™开放性的安全合作框架汇集多种安全解决方案，其中PUFiot扮演安全协同处理器角色来执行应用所需安全功能，例如安全信任根、抗攻击与防克隆的安全存储、随机数产生器、符合美国NIST高安全标准的对称/非对称算法与密钥生成/管理机制、签章认证与数据加解密功能，结合晶心科技的D25F+AE350平台，实现安全启动、韧体保护、在线更新等更高安全性的系统级安全部署。

熵码科技所开发之硬件安全处理器PUFiot，结合母公司力旺电子所研发的新一代硅智财Quantum-Tunneling PUF (NeoPUF 芯片指纹)，与业界首屈一指的Anti-fuse NeoFuse OTP(One-time Programmable Function)存储技术，提供芯片识别信任根基础与稳固的安全边界，并支持各种国际标准算法，包含对称、非对称、哈希算法与SM2/SM3/SM4，提供弹性化的配备与客制空间。

PUFiot具备多项物理/数字抗攻击设计，能进一步抵抗旁路攻击(Side-Channel-Attack)与芯片防克隆 (anti-cloning)。对于侵入式攻击，比方对芯片做聚焦离子束(Focused Ion Beam, FIB )，也有良好的防御效果。

利用芯片指纹产生密钥对(Key pairs)与原生ID (Identity), 可降低实现零接触部署(Zero Touch Deployment)的成本来满足AI/IoT/5G数以兆计连网装置的安全部署。协助云端应用生态，达成零信任(Zero Trust)的安全运作。

晶心科技的RISC-V D25F CPU是32-bit 高效能CPU核心，支持单/双精度浮点运算以及 RVP P-extension (DSP/SIMD)延伸指令; 而AE350应用平台具AHB/AXI汇流接口、中断控制、除错模块以及常用的周边组件如GPIO、I2C、PWM、QSPI、UART和WatchDog Timer等，能让客户设计SoC更为容易。D25F搭配AE350已授权给众多客户并广泛运用在不同的领域。

此次晶心科技和熵码科技在安全硅智财的合作上别具意义，将为RISC-V架构下的芯片生态系统提供极具成本优势的硬件安全解决方案。

关于熵码科技
熵码科技是致力于利用物理不可复制功能(PUF)发展创新安全解决方案的IP设计公司，为力旺电子之子公司。 利基于熵码与力旺团队的技术敏锐度和研发成就，包括力旺电子的NeoPUF和NeoFuse OTP等核心IP，熵码科技将为市场带来新颖的PUF-based安全解决方案。 最新的解决方案包括五合一硬件信任根模块PUFrt和安全加密处理器PUFiot。 凭借我们成熟的产业资源，熵码科技将在广泛的制程技术平台上持续开发兼具卓越性能和成本效益的硬件安全解决方案。
欲了解更多信息请至http://www.pufsecurity.com

关于晶心科技
晶心科技股份有限公司于2005年成立于新竹科学园区，2017年于台湾证交所上市(TWSE:6533)。晶心是RISC-V国际协会的创始首席会员，也是第一家采用RISC-V作为其第五代架构AndeStar™基础的主流CPU供货商。为了满足当今电子设备的严苛要求，晶心提供了高可配置性的32/64位高效CPU核心，包含DSP，FPU，Vector，超纯量(Superscalar)及多核心系列，可应用于各式SoC与应用场景。晶心并提供功能齐全的整合开发环境和全面的软/硬件解决方案，可帮助客户在短时间内创新其SoC设计。Andes-Embedded™ SoC的年出货量在2020年，突破20亿颗，而截至2020年底，累积出货量已超过70亿颗。
更多信息请访问www.andestech.com

关于RISC-V CON 
随着万物联网时代来临，RISC-V以开源特性、精简架构以及可扩充的弹性配置，在全球掀起开源架构新浪潮。32/64位嵌入式CPU核心供货商晶心科技布局RISC-V架构多年，为了进一步推广RISC-V，将于6月3日于在线举办「RISC-V CON研讨会」，以「RISC-V: The Rising Force」为主题，介绍开放式架构的创新特点如何改变半导体产业面貌，以及晶心如何协助客户持续创新并成为市场领导者的成功案例；本次会议还邀请到重量级嘉宾进行专题演讲及展览，一同带来最新生态系趋势与相关产品应用信息，包括晶心客户Telink、Picocom以及合作伙伴IAR Systems、M31、Menta、PGC、Rambus、Secure IC、Simens、Skymizer等，熵码科技也在RISC-V CON分享「芯片指纹实现更安全的芯片应用与服务」之主题演讲。
免费注册及更多信息请访问http://www.andestech.com/Andes_RISC-V_CON_2021_TW/

 

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采用晶心处理器架构的芯片2020年出货量突破20亿颗

至2020年累积芯片出货量达70亿颗　屡创新高

【台湾新竹】—2021年04月29日—提供32及64位高效能、低功耗RISC-V处理器核心之全球领导供货商晶心科技，今日宣布于2020年度采用晶心处理器架构的系统芯片出货量超过20亿颗，较2019年出货量成长33%，并且总累计出货量超过70亿颗。这些系统芯片被广泛运用于音频装置、蓝牙装置、电玩游戏、GPS、机器学习、MCU、传感器融合(sensor fusion) 、SSD控制器、触控屏幕控制器、储存装置、语音识别、无线充电等多元应用。

晶心科技执行长林志明表示：「虽然2020年全球受到疫情的影响，但嵌入晶心的SoC芯片，出货量仍持续创历史新高。根据统计，2020年20亿颗的出货量中，绝大多数为晶心处理器第三代架构，而于2017年底开始推出之RISC-V系列IP，也在2020年开始贡献权利金，虽然所占比例尚低，但是以IP产品寿命期长的特点，可以判断，RISC-V产品的权利金，也将在未来十数年、甚至数十年内不断对晶心的营收产生贡献。晶心也持续在RISC-V阵营中布局，在RISC-V国际协会(RISC-V International)的董事会及技术指导委员会中，推进并主导RISC-V 技术规划、商务战略及生态系发展。」

晶心科技总经理暨技术长苏泓萌博士则表示： 「采用晶心第三代(V3)处理器解决方案的SoC，每日以将近550万颗产量持续生产中。至于采用第五代(V5)RISC-V的芯片，2020年也已经有客户进入量产；根据2021 Semico Research最新的预测，从2020年到2025年，RISC-V核心的年复合成长率将达到115％。RISC-V架构最大的特色就是模块化，扩充性佳及设计简洁。目前晶心客户的应用，在单一芯片上从只使用单核到超过1,000核都有，应用领域包括5G、人工智能/机器学习、ADAS、AR/VR、区块链、云端运算、数据中心、物联网、储存装置、安防、无线装置等。晶心持续在RISC-V架构中保持技术领先地位，目前推出多款RISC-V系列处理器核心，设计上兼顾灵活运用及高效能低功耗的特性，并结合完整的软件开发环境、计算库、AI编译程序及开放安全框架等多项支持。随着晶心的产品组合，涵盖的应用更为广泛，提供给客户的选择也更多元，将瞄准新兴应用之不同需求，针对特定领域协助客户打造最具竞争力的解决方案。」

关于晶心科技Andes Technology
晶心科技股份有限公司于2005年成立于新竹科学园区，2017年于台湾证交所上市(TWSE: 6533)。晶心是RISC-V国际协会(RISC-V International)的创始首席会员，也是第一家采用RISC-V作为其第五代架构AndeStar™基础的主流CPU供货商。为了满足当今电子设备的苛刻要求，晶心提供了可配置性高的32/64位高效CPU核心，包含DSP、FPU、Vector、超纯量(Superscalar)及多核心系列，可应用于各式SoC与应用场景。晶心并提供功能齐全的整合开发环境和全面的软/硬件解决方案，可帮助客户在短时间内创新其SoC设计。2020年Andes-Embedded™ SoC的年出货量突破20亿颗，而截至2020年，嵌入AndesCore™的SoC累积出货量已超过70亿颗。

关于晶心RISC-V AndesCore™系列
晶心科技全面的RISC-V CPU系列涵盖了入门级32位N22、中阶32位N25F/D25F/A25/A27和64位NX25F/AX25/AX27以及高阶多核A(X)25MP和向量处理器NX27V，以及近期则推出的最新超纯量的45系列。

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晶心科技宣布AndeSight™ IDE v5.0的新升级：全方位的软件解决方案加速RISC-V AI与IoT应用开发

  • AndeSight™ IDE v5.0将于2021年6月发布
  • 介绍AndeSight™ IDE v5.0对于AI和IoT应用程序开发的新功能与产品亮点，包括：RISC-V DSP/SIMD和Vector处理器扩展指令的软件工具和套件；处理器管线分析工具 AndesClarity™；调试脚本与自动化；多核心处理器调试程序；神经网络计算函式库；Linux LTS v5.4；FreeRTOS与Zephyr

【台湾新竹】— 2021年04月23日— 32及64位高效能、低功耗RISC-V CPU处理器核心领导供货商、RISC-V国际协会（RISC-V International）创始首席会员晶心科技（TWSE: 6533），宣布AndeSight™ IDE v5.0的升级发布，将增强多项创新与实用的功能，加速RISC-V AI和IoT软件应用开发。

AI与IoT应用遍地开花，相关产品需求不仅要效能好、效率高、低功耗，以支持AI算力的需求与终端布署，还要能快速推出新产品，以实时反应快速变化的市场需求。AndeSight™ IDE v5.0针对这些问题推出了多项新功能，并为用户带来了更好执行效能并增进开发效率。

AI计算的核心：RISC-V DSP / SIMD处理器指令扩展（RVP），向量处理器指令扩展（RVV），以及对应的开发工具和软件套件

RVP的指令设计解决了小规模数据计算与功耗之间的平衡问题。通过提供简洁的SIMD（单指令多数据）和DSP（数字信号处理）功能，它为TinyML与AIoT在终端设备上提供了非常有竞争力的基础。RVV则应用于大规模的数据计算，无论是在终端设备还是在数据中心，它都能为通用的AI，神经网络和数据处理提供了非常强大的扩展性、高效率及计算效能。

为了发挥强大的处理器指令扩展效能，一个简洁易用的程序设计模型至关重要。AndeSight™ IDE v5.0支持RISC-V标准的RVP和RVV工具链，搭配高度优化的DSP与Vector计算函式库，intrinsic functions以及多个向量程序设计的范例代码。其中一个关键的优势为软件开发人员可以完全使用C语言，更有效率的使用intrinsic functions与优化的计算函式库来构建应用程序，免于撰写容易出错的汇编语言，并达到与手工汇编语言开发所相匹配的效能。

进一步要善用处理器的计算能力并获得最终的效能，还需要使用到处理器管线的分析工具。AndesClarity™可视化了处理器的性能和资源瓶颈，如数据相依等所导致的处理器管线停顿，在AndesClarity™下都可以清晰地呈现出来，并指示出相关的程序代码、指令代码和硬件功能单元。

此外，晶心科技提供了Andes NN Library，大大地加速了神经网络算法的开发。对应MobileNet-v1神经网络模型，RISC-V向量处理器扩展在半精度浮点，512位向量宽与256位SIMD宽度下，实现了对于RISC-V标准基础指令集的66倍加速。Andes NN Library也可以与TensorFlow Lite for Microcontroller整合，所有的内建神经网络模型都能在开发版上正确执行。

使用AndeSight™ IDE强大的软件工具来开发最新的RTOS和Linux应用程序

AndeSight™ IDE v5.0支持Linux LTS（Long-Term Support）v5.4，以及最常用的RTOS，FreeRTOS和Zephyr。晶心科技Linux内核已经通过LTP（Linux Test Project）进行了验证，包含Linux设备驱动程序，可以在Andes开发板上运行Fedora或Debian Linux发行版。此外，为了提供较小的Linux映像代码于嵌入式应用，除64位外还支持RISC-V 32位处理器。 晶心科技FreeRTOS也通过 AWS Qualification Program for RTOS，由AWS（Amazon Web Service）官方验证在微控制器开发板上的整合。晶心科技Zephyr支持SMP（Symmetric Multi-Processing），并已通过Andes RISC-V多核心处理器的验证。藉由以上底层基础软件支持，开发人员只需专注于应用程序本身。

为了大幅提高侦错的效率，AndeSight™ IDE推出了强大的脚本工具，和多处理器分组功能。AndeSight™ scripting让开发人员可以记录其图形接口整合开发环境的操作，并在另一个环境上重现，这样可以大量节省复制问题的时间。与GDB Python scripts功能类似，用户可以使用Python语言来自动化和扩展侦错的能力。Core Grouping则让用户除了可以针对各个处理器使用各自的编译和侦错设定外，还可以同时将侦错命令发送到不同组使用者指定的处理器。

AndeSight™ IDE v5.0仍然沿承了累积16年的丰富功能，包括且不限于出色性能的工具链，人工优化的标准C标准函式库，AndeSim™近周期精确 (cycle accuracy)的仿真器，易于使用与上手的性能分析工具，virtual hosting，RTOS awareness，以及多样的应用范例展示与参考代码。

「我们很高兴地宣布AndeSight™ IDE v5.0已准备好发布。AndeSight™ IDE v5.0是晶心科技在RISC-V软件解决方案的新里程碑，它是我们为RISC-V社群提供的最新产品，并期待它能把RISC-V SoC的开发提升到一个新的水平，」晶心科技总经理暨首席技术官苏泓萌博士说。「高效率的工具和优化的软件套件是处理器发挥出色效能的重要一环。如果没有对应的软件解决方案，处理器将无法高效率的运作并表现出色。晶心科技将会继续投入于RISC-V软件解决方案，并坚定持续为RISC-V社群带来最佳的RISC-V处理器性能。」

AndeSight™ IDE v5.0预计将于2021年6月发布。有关AndeSight™更多详细功能介绍，请于下方链接注册Andes Webinar「Andes软件解决方案加速RISC-V AI与IoT应用开发」02:00 PM (GMT+8) 4月28日 星期三（http://www.andestech.com/cn/webinar_cn/）

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Silex Insight and Andes Technology Extend Strategic Partnership to Deliver Flexible and Scalable Root-of-Trust Security IP Solution

April 13, 2021
Silex Insight, Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium
Andes Technology, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
  • Silex Insight and Andes Technology offer the eSecure solution as part of the AndeSentry™ security framework.
  • The eSecure IP module, including security boot, sensitive key material and asset protection, is perfect for security-sensitive applications

Silex Insight, a leading provider for flexible security IP cores, and Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores, announce their strategic partnership to bring flexible and scalable Root-of-Trust security IP solutions integrated with RISC-V core to the industry.

Silex Insight’s advanced eSecure IP module, including security boot, sensitive key material and asset protection, is a complete solution that enables security applications to shield confidential information from untrusted applications running on a main processor. In the previous partnership, Andes Technology provided a high-efficiency and low-power RISC-V CPU core tightly integrated in the eSecure IP module to fully and robustly control the execution of security functions. The eSecure module is highly configurable and thus provides a wide-range selection of security features, which can be adapted for any application for performance, area and energy consumption. Andes RISC-V processors together with eSecure have been used in a wide variety of SoCs ranging from microcontrollers to data center servers, and for different purposes such as communication, and video applications.

Silex Insight and Andes Technology extend their partnership by offering the eSecure solution as part of the Andes security framework called AndeSentry™. With the combination of Silex Insight’s eSecure IP module and Andes’ versatile RISC-V processors, customers can authenticate and protect their solution in the field easily. Furthermore, customers can perform secure failure analysis/RMA (certificate based, set permissions levels, public key cryptography).
“We are able to deliver a one-stop-shop and ready-to-go solution to SoC makers who need advanced security and efficiency”, said Pieter Willems, VP of Global Sales and Marketing of Silex Insight. “With Andes Technology’s high efficiency and low-power RISC-V CPU core together with our eSecure Root-of-Trust turnkey solution, customers who demand high security on their devices can easily prevent hostile attacks from the outside world and at the same time perform end-to-end secure debugging”.

“Through our popular RISC-V processors, we have been engaged with a wide variety of customer applications. We observe that security is becoming fundamental now to all devices and connected services. Therefore we have gathered all our security solutions under one framework called AndeSentry™, where Silex Insight plays an important role with their top-notch performance solutions,” said Dr. Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology. “We are excited to be able to deliver configurable and efficient security turnkey solutions, including Silex Insight’s eSecure IP module platform, to chip design teams which need highly reliable protection”.

This robust secure solution, including end-to-end secure debugging, is perfect for security-sensitive applications, and now it is available from both Silex Insight and Andes Technology.

About Silex Insight
Silex Insight is a recognized market-leading independent supplier of Security IP solutions for embedded systems and custom OEM solutions for AVoIP/Video IP codec. The security platforms and solutions from Silex Insight include flexible and high-performance crypto engines which are easy to integrate and an eSecure IP module that provides a complete security solution for all platforms. For custom OEM solutions for AVoIP/Video IP codec, Silex Insight provides high-end image and video compression solutions for distributing low latency, 4K HDR video over IP. Development take place at the headquarters near Brussels, Belgium.

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About Andes Technology
Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533) was established in Hsinchu Science Park in 2005. Sixteen years in business and a founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and a main force to take RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture (V5) adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020 and continues to rise. To the end of 2020, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 7 billion.

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晶心科技RISC-V向量处理器NX27V升级至RVV 1.0

【加州圣荷西】—2021年4月9日—32及64位高效能、低功耗RISC-V CPU处理器核心领导供货商、RISC-V国际协会(RISC-V International)创始首席会员晶心科技(TWSE: 6533)，宣布全球业界首款RISC-V向量处理器核心AndesCore™ NX27V升级支持最新RISC-V向量(RVV)扩展指令1.0版以及支持更多的配置以满足不同市场的需求。RVV 1.0新增的指令包括数学计算的向量浮点倒数(vector floating-point reciprocal)及平方根倒数估计(reciprocal square-root estimate)。并且除了原有的缓存器分组之外，LMUL(vector length multiplier)新增的分数选项使用较少的缓存器位，在使用上更有弹性。NX27V具备强大的向量运算和平行运算能力，特别适合大量数据运算的应用，例如人工智能(AI)、AR/VR、计算机视觉、加密和多媒体等等。

NX27V是与Cray超级计算机架构类似的向量运算引擎，每个向量缓存器最大可以选定为512位宽，并可经由软件设定扩充至4,096位。NX27V支持包括整数、定点和浮点的RVV标准数据类型，同时也支持晶心针对AI所优化的BFloat16及4位数据类型。NX27V包含纯量(Scalar)单元和乱序执行(Out-of-Order)向量处理单元(VPU)。乱序执行向量处理单元具有多个功能单元，每个功能单元可同时处理高达512位的数据，支持多样化应用的运算需求。NX27V具备标准的开发工具、RVV运算库以及强大的可视化分析工具AndesClarity™，能协助分析并且优化关键运算核心的效能。此外，在使用多个NX27V的情况下，具备整合LLVM编译程序的OpenCL™可在异构计算(heterogeneous computing)架构上执行并行计算。透过512位VLEN 和256位SIMD宽度的配置，NX27V能在MobileNet v1卷积神经网络(CNN)实现超过66倍加速的效果。

串流通讯端口(Streaming Port)是NX27V基于ACE(Andes Custom Extension™)框架的独特功能，专用的接口让NX27V缓存器和外部组件以高效率的方式交换大量数据，无论是简单的智能区域内存或是全功能具备DMA的协同处理器等皆适用。串流通讯端口具备解耦(decoupled)指令及具有高效率握手协议(handshaking)的数据信道。举例来说，ACE的向量加载/储存(Load/Store)指令可设计为每个周期将控制信息发送至命令信道(command channel)，让新的向量数据透过数据信道传送，并同时更新地址。如同RVV加载/储存指令，他们也能辨识包括LMUL等的RVV标准设置。ACE加载/储存指令注重数据的相依性，因为NX27V缓存器采用记分板(scoreboard)技术。藉由强大的串流通讯端口，NX27V能与硬件引擎相辅相成，充分发挥专属功能的效能，同时利用周全且具有弹性的RVV扩充指令来提升整体的效能。

「NX27V已获多家服务器领域的客户采用。在这次的新版本中，NX27V升级为符合最新RVV规格以及最高支持到64位FP64和Int64的所有数据类型。NX27V新增256位VLEN和SIMD的配置，以满足多样的性能及面积需求，」晶心科技总经理暨技术长苏泓萌表示。「结合完整的软件开发环境、计算库及AI编译程序的支持，NX27V能实现从边缘运算至云端运算的高传输率应用。」

「我很荣幸宣布NX27V获颁2020年度ASPENCORE全球电子成就奖(WEAA)的『年度杰出产品表现奖』以及在新竹科学园区四十周年庆时获得『新竹科学园区优良厂商创新产品奖』，」晶心科技执行长林志明表示，「我认为NX27V是市场上最佳的向量处理器IP，而获奖更代表NX27V的出色性能和丰富功能获得国际性的肯定。」

NX27V目前已经开放授权。更多有关晶心科技的信息，请至http://www.andestech.com/cn/或与晶心科技销售部门sales@andestech.com联系。

关于晶心科技
晶心科技股份有限公司于2005年成立于新竹科学园区，2017年于台湾证交所上市(TWSE: 6533)。晶心是RISC-V国际协会(RISC-V International)的创始首席会员，也是第一家采用RISC-V作为其第五代架构AndeStar™基础的主流CPU供货商。为了满足当今电子设备的苛刻要求，晶心提供了可配置性高的32/64位高效CPU核心，包含DSP、FPU、Vector、超纯量(Superscalar)及多核心系列，可应用于各式SoC与应用场景。晶心并提供功能齐全的整合开发环境和全面的软/硬件解决方案，可帮助客户在短时间内创新其SoC设计。Andes-Embedded™ SoC的年出货量在2020年突破20亿颗，而截至2020年底，累积出货量已超过70亿颗。

关于晶心RISC-V AndesCore™系列
晶心科技全面的RISC-V CPU系列涵盖了入门级32位N22、中阶32位N25F/D25F/A25/A27/A27L2和64位NX25F/AX25/AX27/AX27L2以及高阶多核A(X)25MP和向量处理器NX27V，以及近期推出的最新超纯量的45系列。

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利用Deeplite之软件结合晶心科技RISC-V　CPU处理器 达到更快、更小、更准的边缘运算

【台湾新竹】─2021年3月18日─在边缘运算设备上，推动低功耗和低延迟深度的学习模型、计算器硬件以及人工智能推理系统这些项目的发展，持续创造令人兴奋的新机遇。业界相关产业对于应用在深度学习的硬件和软件解决方案（也称为Edge AI，边缘运算）的开发产生了前所未有的兴趣。边缘运算已经开始在某些指标性的应用中取得进展，例如音频信号分类(audio classification)中的关键词搜寻(keyword spotting)、异常检测(anomaly detection)以及计算机视觉应用中的人物辨识(person detection)。具体来说，tinyML是专为超低功耗系统量身订作的机器学习分支，具有远大的前景。这个提案中之解决方案的效率极高（功耗为毫瓦(mW)，甚至只有微瓦(μW)），加上其可广泛地部署到此类边缘运算在现实环境中设备的适用性，预计在未来5年内，将应用在超过1000亿个IoT传感器和设备 1。蓄势待发之深度学习科技的未来，将通过比以往更加可负担、具有友善生态系、以及更容易使用的智能科技，提供客户及终端使用者更显着的便利。

晶心科技和Deeplite很高兴地宣布两家公司最新合作成果—通过使用Deeplite独特的优化软件和晶心科技低功耗RISC-V CPU核心研发出具有人工智能运算能力的应用程序(AI-powered applications)。这项合作关系着重于压缩(compressing)并加速(accelerating)著名的视觉唤醒词(Visual Wake Words (VWW))应用程序。微型相机可以利用此类程序，进行人物图像侦测。Deeplite及晶心科技共同获得了领先业界的结果，从利用浮点运算的Mobilenet-v1-0.25x模型中，产出各式优化的INT8模型。本次发表的第一组研发结果侧重于提高精确性，以精度为主的INT8模型优化提高了2.7％的精度，缩小了1.7倍(172 KB)的档案大小以及提高了9%的执行速度。第二组结果主要着重于最大化压缩(maximizing compression)。与TensorFlow Lite Micro提供的INT8 模型相比，本组专注于模型档案尺寸最小化的模块，成功做到缩小2.3倍(127KB)的档案大小，更高的精度(0.7％)和提高了15％的执行速度。(表1)

表1 参考模型和优化模型的模型之档案尺寸，精确性和运行时间之间的参数

「我们决心为低功耗设备提供最高效，最精确的解决方案，尤其是随着边缘计算类型之AI越来越多地在应用在智能助理、安全监控和智能制造应用中。」 晶心科技技术长兼总经理苏泓萌博士表示。「Deeplite的尖端软件为AI模型优化提供了一种有效的方法，可以增强目前架构的性能。Deeplite支持我们的AndeStar™ V5架构，并已于第一个具有RISC-V P 扩充指令 (DSP SIMD) 的CPU核心D25F上高效率的执行；客户能将之应用在选定的AI模型上。」

「Andes™ RISC-V CPU核心是非常理想的硬件的范例，替Deeplite的模型展示了优化的优点，为低成本、使用电池作为供电的设备，提供了以往无法达成的复杂智能功能。」Deeplite首席执行官Nick Romano说：「随着我们持续在业界最大的挑战上（如视觉唤醒词Visual Wake Words和语音关键词查询keyword spotting）取得领先成果，我们预计由Deeplite软件提供支持的边缘运算AI应用将出现大幅度的成长。」

领先业界的优化Deeplite软件结合晶心科技最新之RISC-V CPU核心，共同应用于tinyML上，可以解锁边缘AI运算之应用，例如语音识别或人物辨识，以满足微控制器等级之内存及计算要求。设备代工厂和应用程序开发人员现在可以为用户提供将其数据保存在终端设备上的优点，并同时提供日常生活中AI所需的实时且无缝式回应。

要了解技术白皮书和优化结果之详细内容，请联系Deeplite营销经理Anastasia Hamel anastasia@deeplite.ai。

关于晶心科技
晶心科技股份有限公司于2005年成立于新竹科学园区，2017年于台湾证交所上市(TWSE: 6533)。晶心是RISC-V国际协会(RISC-V International)的创始首席会员，也是第一家采用RISC-V作为其第五代架构AndeStar™基础的主流CPU供货商。为了满足当今电子设备的苛刻要求，晶心提供了可配置性高的32/64位高效CPU核心，包含DSP、FPU、Vector、超纯量(Superscalar)及多核心系列，可应用于各式SoC与应用场景。晶心并提供功能齐全的整合开发环境和全面的软/硬件解决方案，可帮助客户在短时间内创新其SoC设计。2020年Andes-Embedded™ SoC的年出货量突破20亿颗，而截至2020年，嵌入AndesCore™的SoC累积出货量已超过60亿颗。

关于晶心RISC-V AndesCore™系列
晶心科技全面的RISC-V CPU系列涵盖了入门级32位N22、中阶32位N25F/D25F/A25/A27和64位NX25F/AX25/AX27以及高阶多核A(X)25MP和向量处理器NX27V，以及近期则推出的最新超纯量的45系列。
关于更多晶心科技的信息，欢迎参阅晶心科技官网：http://www.andestech.com/

关于Deeplite
Deeplite成立于2018年，总部位于加拿大蒙特利尔，是一家致力实现深度学习于日常使用设备中的AI软件公司。Deeplite专有的AI软件平台，可自动调整其他AI模型，生成更快速、更精巧、更节能并且高度压缩、高性能的深度神经网络，可用于部署在摄影机，传感器，无人机，手机及车用等边缘运算设备上。自2018年成立以来，Deeplite的核心技术已可让全球最具创新能力的公司能够推动更高效的云端AI运算，并且让以往无法进行深度学习的嵌入式及低功耗设备，也迈入AI运算的领域。Deeplite被列入2020 CB Insights AI 100 非公开发行公司前一百强AI公司的名单，并被Gartner、福布斯及ARM AI选为Edge AI的主要创新者。欲了解更多信息，请至www.deeplite.ai

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Andes Technology and Rambus Collaborate to offer Secure Solution for MCU and IoT Applications

HSINCHU, TAIWAN – February 24, 2021 – Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, today announced a collaboration with Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a provider of industry-leading chips and silicon IP making data faster and safer, to develop a complete low-power, size-optimized secure solution for Microcontrollers (MCUs) and Internet of Thing (IoT) applications.

According to Statista, the total number of connected IoT devices will grow to 21.5B units by 2025. As the IoT market has exploded, consumers and governments alike are demanding that device and data security requirements are a primary design requirement for all IoT devices. Accordingly, IoT device makers are increasingly demanding that MCUs be secure by design, offering “out of the box” security. To address these needs, Andes and Rambus are collaborating to offer a secure solution for MCUs embedded with Andes RISC-V -based CPU and Rambus Security Root of Trust. The Rambus Root of Trust securely boots the MCU, protects the device identity and offers authentication, secure debug, and other cryptographic services to the host system. All AndesCore™ RISC-V processors optimally leverage Rambus Root of Trust to offer these security services and reduce power for compute-intensive cryptographic operations.

“Today, security has been a fundamental and mandatory feature for IoT devices required by markets, consumers, and governments,” said Dr. Charlie Su, Andes Technology CTO and EVP. “To fulfill the requirements of different security levels, we are very pleased to collaborate with Rambus to provide an optimized secure solution for microcontrollers. With the integrated platform and FPGA ready solution of Rambus Root of Trust and Andes RISC-V processor IPs, SoC vendors can focus on their core value, key competitive and unique differentiation. They don’t need to worry about protecting the system against security threats.”

“As the connected device market continues to expand rapidly, the security of valuable assets and services is a primary concern for users and manufacturers alike,” said Gijs Willemse, senior director of product management, Rambus Security. “This collaboration will provide a strong and low-power security foundation for MCUs. It allows manufacturers to assure their customers that devices will function without the worry of security breaches that risk user privacy or interrupt their cloud services.”

AndesCore™ RISC-V processors, based on AndeStar™ V5 RISC-V architecture, consists a series of high efficiency and low power 32-bit/64-bit CPU core families range from the entry-level N22, mid-range 25-series, advanced 27-series to high-performance superscalar 45-series. Andes RISC-V vector processor NX27V is designed for broad market segments of today’s computation-intensive applications. Andes Custom Extension™ framework empowers customers to innovate Domain-Specific Acceleration via creating new instructions. AndesCore RISC-V processors have been used in a wide variety of SoCs ranging from microcontrollers to data center servers, and from edge to cloud applications.

Providing a hardware-based foundation for security, Rambus offers a catalog of robust Root of Trust solutions, ranging from richly featured military-grade co-processors to highly compact state machines. With a breadth of solutions applicable from the data center to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Rambus has a Root of Trust solution for almost every application.

About Andes Technology

Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533) was established in Hsinchu Science Park in 2005. Sixteen years in business and a founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and a main force to take RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020. Up to the end of 2020, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 6 billion.

About RISC-V AndesCore™

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. From 2017, Andes expands its product line to RISC-V processors and provides a total solution in V5 family cores, including N22, N25F/NX25F, D25F, A25/AX25, A25MP/AX25MP, A27/AX27/NX27V, A45/D45/N45 and AX45/DX45/NX45.

For more information about Andes Technology, please visit http://www.andestech.com/

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