2024 ANDES RISC-V CON
Deep Dive into Automotive / AI
Application Processors and Security Trends

As 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 the driving force in taking 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 Out of Order processors with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multi/many-core capabilities. In the end of 2022, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has surpassed 12 billion.

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Andes Official Website

▸ Introduction
Andes Product Portfolio
AndesCore™ AX65 Overview
AndesCore™ D23 Overview
AndesCore™ AX45MPV Overview
AndesAIRE™ Overview
Andes Custom Extension™ Overview
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Alchip Technologies Ltd., founded in 2003 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading global provider of silicon and design and production services for system companies developing complex and high-volume ASICs and SoCs. Alchip provides faster time-to-market and cost-effective solutions for SoC design at mainstream and advanced process technology. Alchip has built its reputation as a high-performance ASIC leader through its advanced 2.5D/3DIC design, CoWoS/chiplet design and manufacturing management. Customers include global leaders in AI, HPC/supercomputer, mobile phones, entertainment device, networking equipment and other electronic product categories. Alchip is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 3661).

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Alchip Official Website

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Alchip Portfolio & Key Strengths
Connect with Alchip on LinkedIn

Green Hills Software and Andes Techbology are collaborating to offer an integrated and optimized platform for safe and secure computing on the AndesCore™ 25-Series family of RISC-V cores from Andes Technology. The comprehensive software offering from Green Hills Software will include the safety-certified µ-velOSity™ real-time operating system (RTOS), the ASIL-certified MULTI® development environment with advanced system-level debugging and analysis tools and C/C++ Optimizing Compilers, along with the Green Hills Probe for JTAG and trace target connections. The combined hardware and software platform from Andes Technology and Green Hills Software is designed for SoC companies and end-customers to create market-leading 32/64-bit RISC-V-based SoCs targeting critical functions requiring ISO 26262 ASIL B to ASIL D, making the combined platform ideal for vehicle electronics requiring compact and cost-sensitive SoCs that are still capable of ASIL certification.

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Green Hills Software

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RISC-V Embedded Software Solutions

Lauterbach TRACE32® tools are a suite of leading-edge hardware and software components that enables you to analyze, optimize and certify all kinds of embedded systems. An intuitive modular design provides you with the highest available performance today and a system that will adapt and grow as your needs change.
Using our TRACE32® tools for Andes SOC you can debug and control any Andes RISC-V core (along with all of the other cores) in any SoC via a single debug interface, all at the same time. TRACE32® tools support real-time on- and off-chip tracing for all major RISC-V trace systems.From the beginning we have been a strategic member of the RISC-V foundation, supporting nearly all today’s chips implementing the RISC-V ISA. Thanks to the long-standing close partnership with RISC-V processor designers and semiconductor manufacturers, future chip developments enabled by us from the very beginning – ensuring your future-proof investment.

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Lauterbach Official Website

Siemens EDA is committed to delivering the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of electronic design automation (EDA) software, hardware and services. Tessent Embedded Analytics dramatically reduces the silicon debug effort and enables post-deployment analytics for RISC-V based and other complex system-on-chips (SoCs).
The Tessent™ Enhanced Trace Encoder is a fully featured RISC-V trace solution that provides a mechanism to monitor the program execution of a CPU in real time. It encodes program execution (instruction trace) and, optionally, the data from load and store instructions (data trace), outputting trace in a highly compressed format. External software can later take this data and use it to reconstruct the program execution flow. The Tessent Enhanced Trace Encoder can be finely tuned to balance the features and gate-count requirements of your system and includes a broad range of filters, giving complete control over what and when to trace. It complies with the latest standards produced by the RISC-V International’s Efficient Trace for RISC-V (E Trace) Working Group, supporting any standards compliant RISC-V processor.
In addition to a comprehensive range of on-chip analytic monitors, Tessent also provides the software to analyze and interpret the trace results, providing everything you need to ensure that your design is fully debugged when you need it to be. Using Tessent Embedded Analytics components, you can debug and trace any design from simple single processor systems to highly complex superscalar multi processor systems.

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Siemens Official Website

▸ Introduction
RISC-V Trace Encoder fact sheet
SoC Debug - the need for visibility white paper
Optimizing SoC performance in-life with Embedded Analytics white paper
Tessent Embedded Analytics Solution Brief
Tessent Systeminsight - Full system debug and optimization tool for SoCs white pape

Synopsys: Smart Everything – From Silicon To Software
Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way we work and play. Autonomous vehicles. Artificial intelligence. The cloud. 5G. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart Everything―where devices are getting smarter, everything’s connected, and everything must be secure.
Powering this new era of digital innovation are advanced silicon chips and exponentially growing amounts of software content―all working together, smartly and securely. Synopsys is at the forefront of Smart Everything with the world’s most advanced technologies for chip design and verification, IP integration, and software security and quality testing. We help our customers innovate from silicon to software so they can deliver Smart Everything.
The future of Smart Everything depends on silicon chips running faster, scaling down to fit into smaller devices, integrating more capabilities, and processing massive amounts of data―all while consuming less power― reliably. To deliver Smart Everything, companies need to start software development earlier, in tandem with hardware design, to properly simulate how a device will work, to verify that the chip won’t fail, and to ensure that the code can’t be hacked. That’s where we come in.
Synopsys technology makes it possible for leading companies to build smarts, security, and safety into their next-generation products. From silicon to software, we help our customers meet new goals for power, speed, connectivity, mobility, and reliability that are critical to the future of Smart Everything.

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Synopsys Official Website

At IAR, we provide world-leading software and services for embedded development, empowering companies globally to bring secure products that shape the future. Since its founding in 1983, our solutions have been instrumental in ensuring quality, security, reliability, and efficiency in the development of over one million embedded applications for a wide range of industries, including Automotive, Industrial Automation, IoT, MedTech, Military, and Public Safety sectors. With support for 15,000 devices from over 70 semiconductor partners, we are dedicated to fostering innovation and enabling our customers' success.
The company is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, with a global presence of sales and support offices strategically located across the world. IAR is an I.A.R. Systems Group AB subsidiary, listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm, Mid Cap (ticker symbol: IAR B). To learn more, visit us at www.iar.com.

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IAR Official Website

▸ Introduction
IAR Solutions for RISC-V Datasheet
Enforcing Code Quality in the Open-Source RISC-V Ecosystem (webinar)
Speed Your Path to Certification of a RISC-V-based product (webinar)
Beyond breakpoints: Advanced debugging for RISC-V-based applications

S2C is a leading global supplier of FPGA prototyping solutions for today's innovative SoC and ASIC designs, now with the second largest share of the global prototyping market. S2C has been successfully delivering rapid SoC prototyping solutions since 2003. With over 600 customers, including 6 of the world's top 10 semiconductor companies, our world-class engineering team and customer-centric sales team are experts at addressing our customer's SoC and ASIC verification needs. S2C has offices and sales representatives in the US, Europe, mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan.

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S2C Official Website

▸ Introduction
S2C's RISC-V Related solutions
What is RISC-V?
White paper: How do Logic Simulation, Emulation, and FPGA Prototyping work?
White paper: ProtoBridge – Accelerate Design Verification, Architecture Exploration and Software Development
White paper: Advanced SoC Debug with Multi-FPGA Prototyping

Menta SAS, based in Sophia-Antipolis, France, is a private semiconductor IP provider offering a ground-breaking performance accelerator for edge computing in the form of eFPGA IPs. Menta is the proven eFPGA pioneer whose design-adaptive standard cells-based architecture and state-of-the-art tool set provides the highest degree of design customization, best-in-class testability, and fastest time-to-volume for SoC design targeting any production node at any foundry. Menta products are used worldwide by companies serving the defense, space, IoT, AI, 5G and automotive markets.

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Menta Official Website

▸ Introduction
Menta eFPGA IP
Andes Custom Extension™ Framework Extended on Menta eFPGA for RISC-V Cores ISA Reconfigurability
Menta - Standard Cells eFPGA IP - Whitepaper
Preview of 'Menta eFPGA for edge AI' white paper
Check out Menta LinkedIn for more information

Rambus is a provider of industry-leading chips and silicon IP making data faster and safer. With over 30 years of advanced semiconductor experience, we are a pioneer in high-performance memory subsystems that solve the bottleneck between memory and processing for data-intensive systems. Whether in the cloud, at the edge or in your hand, real-time and immersive applications depend on data throughput and integrity. Rambus products and innovations deliver the increased bandwidth, capacity and security required to meet the world’s data needs and drive ever-greater end-user experiences. For more information, visit rambus.com.
Quantum computers will be able to rapidly break current asymmetric encryption, placing important data and assets at risk. Rambus Quantum Safe IP solutions offer a hardware-level security solution to protect data and hardware against quantum computer attacks using NIST and CNSA selected algorithms. The Rambus Quantum Safe Engine (QSE) supports the FIPS 203 ML-KEM and FIPS 204 ML-DSA draft standards and includes SHA-3, SHAKE-128 and SHAKE-256 acceleration. For applications that require additional protection against differential power analysis (DPA) attacks, a DPA version of the QSE is available. The RT-634, RT-654 and RT-664 Root of Trust cores support the FIPS 203 ML-KEM and FIPS 204 ML-DSA draft standards. These products also support secure boot and firmware verification use cases with the stateful hash-based signature verification methods XMSS (eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme) and LMS (Leighton-Micali Signatures).

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Rambus Official Website

▸ Introduction
Post-quantum Cryptography (PQC): New Algorithms for a New Era
Rambus Expands Quantum Safe Solutions with Quantum Safe Engine IP
A Step Closer to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
Quantum Safe IP: Hardware Level Security for the Quantum Computing Era
Quantum Safe Cryptography IP

Arteris is a leading provider of system IP for the acceleration of system-on-chip (SoC) development across today’s electronic systems. Arteris network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP and SoC integration automation technology enables SoC creation success with proven flexibility and ease for a variety of applications including AI/ML, automotive, communications, consumer electronics, enterprise computing, and industrial markets. Arteris technology ensures higher product performance with lower power consumption and faster time to market, delivering better SoC economics for its global customer base including semiconductor manufacturers, OEMs, hyperscale system houses, semiconductor design houses and other producers of electronic systems.

Arteris RISC-V Solution:
The utilization of Arteris’ NoC IP plug-and-play capabilities is an effective strategy to accelerate the integration of RISC-V-based systems. This approach facilitates seamless connections between processor cores or clusters and intellectual property (IP) blocks from multiple vendors. Arteris NoC IP and SoC integration automation enables engineers to:
• CONNECT computing subsystems plus RISC-V-based AI/ML acceleration subsystems with silicon-proven interconnect IP.
• UNIFY protocols of 100s of re-used IP blocks ACE-Lite, AXI, AHB, APB, OCP, PIF CHI-A, CHI-B, ACE, ACE-Lite, ACE5-Lite, AXI4Management.
• DERISK SoC integration and project schedules with proven system IP and expert support.

This results in architecture optimization, lower area plus power consumption, and faster time to market. Learn more at arteris.com.

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Arteris Official Website

▸ Introduction
White Board Video: Integration Challenges For RISC-V Designs
RISC-V Summit Poster
NoCs Give Architects Flexibility in System-in RISC-V Design
Podcast: The Freedom to Innovate: Arteris and the Rise of RISC-V

SignatureIP was founded in 2021 as a spin-off from Marquee Semiconductor to focus on developing interface and interconnect IP solutions for both monolithic and chiplet markets. Currently, the company provides coherent and non-coherent NoCs, PCIe Gen6 and CXL 3.0 Controller IPs. The company strives to accelerate SoC designs for its customers by ensuring that the design of the NoC—the backbone of the chip—is fast, flexible, and configurable. We achieve this by providing integrated systems with the company’s high-speed interface IPs. By enabling our customers to easily modify the NoC topology, experiment with various configuration settings, and instantly simulate the results to measure throughput and latency, we facilitate exploration of the design space at the chip's highest level before making significant architectural decisions. Our cloud-active iNoCulator tool architecture simplifies tool access and offers a seamless experience for system architects, logic designers, and physical design engineers alike.

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Signature IP Official Website

▸ Introduction
Cloud-active iNoCulator Tool
Non-coherent NoC
Coherent NoC
PCIe Gen6 Controller

Rain AI designs energy-efficient hardware for AI. Our mission is to enable advanced and abundant AI in all form factors. We create flexible IP and accelerator solutions for AI inference and training using our novel compute-in-memory (CIM) technology, RISC-V processing cores, and a full stack of ML software and model optimization tools. By aggressively co-designing our chips with the world’s best AI models, we can dramatically reduce the energy consumption of AI compute compared to less specialized solutions. Our investors include Sam Altman, Dan Gross, Jaan Talin, Josh Buckley, Liquid 2 Ventures, Airbus Ventures, and Y Combinator.

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Rain AI Official Website

TetraMem Showcases Breakthrough Multi-level RRAM-Based Analog In-Memory Computing at 2024 ANDES RISC-V COM
TetraMem is excited to showcase its trailblazing Multi-level RRAM-based Analog In-Memory Computing at the 2024 ANDES RISC-V CON, featuring the TetraMem® MX100 evaluation kit and demonstrations. The MX100, a pioneering 8-bit analog in-memory computing SoC, operates on merely tens of milliwatts. This chip will execute a range of AI tasks, such as a 3-layer MNIST for handwriting recognition, Visual Wake Words (VWW) for person detection, and our proprietary Pupil Center Net (PCN) for eye-tracking applications in AR/VR and driver monitoring systems.
The MX100's unparalleled matrix operation energy efficiency heralds a new era for AI applications where power and thermal constraints are critical. Recognized with technology performance, energy efficiency and scalability, our work has been featured in eminent journals like Nature and Science. The future MX200 SoC, boasting enhanced efficiency and performance with an ANDES RISC-V CPU and ACE, is on track for end-of-year production release, with our sights set on further advancements.
Founded in 2018 by a team of world-class experts, TetraMem delivers the industry’s most disruptive in-memory computing (IMC) technology for edge applications. TetraMem team brings together complementary skill sets and technological know-how ranging from proprietary computing memory devices to novel computing architectures.

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TetraMem Official Website

▸ Introduction
Nature: Thousands of conductance levels in memristors integrated on CMOS
Andes Technology and TetraMem Collaborate
Science: Programming memristor arrays with arbitrarily high precision for analog computing
Semiconductor Review: TetraMem named the top In-Memory Computing Solution of 2023

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RISC-V International Official Website

The team at The SHD Group has a decades-long track record of successful business development rooted in strategic market analysis. The company specializes in providing clients with essential insights to navigate emerging market complexities and formulate strategies for capturing market share in new and established technology sectors. Our experience spans diverse industries, including AI, processors, sensors, systems, services and silicon, with a significant presence in consumer, automotive, industrial and computing sectors. At The SHD Group, we are committed to being your reliable partner in achieving lasting success.

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SHD Group Official Website

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RISE (RISC-V Software Ecosystem) Official Website

SAPEON, supported by SK Group, is at the forefront of AI innovation with strategic bases in Santa Clara, USA, and Korea. Specializing in the development of high-performance and energy-efficient AI processors, SAPEON developed Korea's first AI processor for data centers in 2020. Since then, SAPEON has been successfully partnering with customers to unlock the power of AI in various industries, including data center, media, security, smart factories, mobility, healthcare, and more.
The company's flagship product, the X330, is built on a cutting-edge 7nm process and delivers up to four times the performance of its predecessors with minimal peak power usage. Engineered for the lowest power consumption, the X330 is the ideal choice for server-based AI inference, handling large language models to diverse AI workloads with ease.
With its state-of-the-art technology and customer-centric approach, SAPEON is ready to provide you with the most efficient AI computing power through its zero-touchTM software solution. The company's expertise in AI processors and its commitment to innovation make it a reliable partner for businesses looking to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence across various sectors.

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SAPEON Official Website

▸ Introduction
SAPEON Company Brochure
SAPEON X330 Product Brief
SAPEON Company Introduction Video
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Sondrel is a UK-based fabless semiconductor company specialising in high end, complex digital Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and System on Chips (SOCs). It provides both ASIC design services and a full turnkey service.
The company is one of the few companies capable of designing and supplying the higher-spec chips built on the most advanced semiconductor technologies, selling into a range of hyper growth end markets such as high-performance computing, automotive, artificial intelligence, VR/AR, video analytics, image processing, mobile networking and data centres. Sondrel designs have enabled products by leading technology brands including Apple (iPhone), Sony (PlayStation), Meta's (Oculus), Samsung, Google and Sony smartphones, JVC (prosumer camcorders), Tesla and Mercedes-Benz cars.
Sondrel is well-established, with a 20+ year track record of successful delivery, supported by long standing ecosystem partnerships including Arm, TSMC and Samsung. Headquartered in the UK, Sondrel has a global presence with offices in UK, USA, India and Morocco.

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Sondrel Official Website

Piecemakers Technology, established in 2006, is a leading DRAM IC design company with over 25 years of industry experience. Our team is well-equipped with DRAM knowledge and specializes in hands-on circuit design and testing, ensuring cutting-edge solutions for our clients. We offer an innovative HBLL-RAM (High Bandwidth Low Latency) solution and remain committed to manufacturing the early generations of PSRAM, DDR1, DDR2, DDR3, DDR4, and SDR SDRAMs. Our standard DRAM products cater to a broad spectrum of customers, including small businesses, SoC manufacturers, and large systems companies. Whether packaged or unpackaged, our IC chips are utilized in a variety of applications. Our global presence spans Taiwan, where foundries and OSATs operate, China, Japan, Korea, France, Israel, Turkey, and India to serve our clients.

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Piecemakers Official Website

▸ Introduction
HBLL
Standard DRAM
KGD DRAM