In other words, the SoCs/CPUs for the mobile market must have enough performance to perform today's demanding mobile information and communication applications, and at the same time must consume very low power to increase the battery-operated time of the mobile devices.

The key applications in the mobile market can be classified as follows. Some of these applications can be combined/merged onto the same device.

Bluetooth Peripheral
Bluetooth wireless technology is a short-range communication technology intended to replace the cables connecting portable and/or fixed devices while maintaining high levels of security. The key features of Bluetooth technology are robustness, low power, and low cost. The Bluetooth technology is defined to allow a wide range of devices to connect and communicate with each other. A Bluetooth enabled device can connect to other Bluetooth enabled devices in proximity. This enables users to enjoy variety of innovative solutions such as a hands-free headset for voice calls, printing and fax capabilities, and synchronizing PDA, laptop, and mobile phone applications.

Mobile phone (Voice, Feature, or Smart phone)
A mobile phone or cellular phone is a long-range, portable electronic device used for mobile communication. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, current mobile phones can support many additional services such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video.

Personal digital assistant
Personal digital assistant (PDA) is a handheld computer that was originally designed as personal organizer, but became much more versatile over the years. PDA has many uses: use as a clock and calendar, accessing the Internet via Wi-Fi, sending and receiving E-mails, voice and video recording, word processing, use as an address book, doing calculations, scanning bar codes, use as a remote control, playing computer games, and Global Positioning System (GPS). Newer PDA also has both color screen and audio capability, enabling it to be used as smart mobile phone, web browser, or portable media player. One of the most significant PDA characteristics is the presence of a touch screen.

Personal navigation device
Personal navigation device uses GPS technology to provide location-based services and applications to a moving individual. A person can use a personal navigation device to find directions, record routes, search nearby stores, get real-time traffic information, and so on.

Portable media player
Portable multimedia player (PMP) is a self-reliant electronic device that is capable of storing and playing files in one or more media formats. The media data is typically stored on a hard drive, microdrive, or flash memory. The main feature of portable media players is their versatility: being able to load and play different formats of video, such as MPEG, DivX; audio, such as MP3, WAV; digital images, such as BMP, JPEG, and GIF; and interactive media, like flash animations. Various portable media players include the ability to record video and audio, and some have built-in card readers like SD or MMC. With added wireless capabilities, a PMP can stream audio and video clips directly from the media source, further increases its convenience of uses.

How does Andes’s technology fit into this field?
To help customers build their mobile-capable SoCs, Andes offers AndeScore processor core family, associated software infrastructure such as development tools, libraries, operating systems, etc. With the rich features provided by the Andes solution, the mobile device is sure to have the best balance between the performance and the power/cost on the market.
The advantages of the Andes solution are:

	Efficient processor architecture
	AndeStar 16-bit/32-bit inter-mixable instruction set: allows compiler to generate very compact code. AndeScore-internal DMA engines – hide memory access latency while CPU is processing. Flexible configuration – allows customers to choose the most efficient configuration for their applications.
	Raw CPU performance AndeScore processor core family provides a wide range of performance based on core selection, targeted processes, and standard cell libraries.
	Low power consumption AndeScores are all designed with extensive clock gating and advanced micro-architecture to reduce power. Also provided is a mechanism for customers to efficiently implement their power management.
	Low total silicon cost AndeScores are designed with silicon cost in mind. Careful tradeoffs are made to achieve good performance/cost and power/cost. In addition, flexible configurability gives customers to add and drop hardware features based on their own tradeoffs. The efficient inter-mixable 16-bit/32-bit instruction set further reduces the code size for the smallest ROM cost and runtime footprint.
	Powerful development tools standard features, plus profiling and tracing to reduce software development cycle and achieve fast product time-to-market.
	Operating Systems Linux for full-featured systems and Nucleus for small footprint devices

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Andes provides solution for thin client application from view point of both hardware and essential software.Andes N12 32 bit CPU is embedded for the thin client platform which also integrates essential IP of GPU, Ethernet MAC, USB, DRAM controller, RTC, INTC, DMA, WDT and etc. With such highly integration, the solution is very compact to fix in small form factor and very low power consumed for the application.

Linux is ported on the Andes thin client platform. Essential middleware and software like X11, Blackbox, RDP, VNCviewer, telenet, ssh, and Firefox are ported and optimized.

Andes thin client solution

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