Andes and SEGGER Partner to Deliver Professional Development Solutions for RISC-V

Hsinchu, Taiwan. - March 11, 2019 - Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE:6533), a founding member of the RISC-V Foundation and the leading supplier of 32/64-bit embedded CPU cores with solutions serving in excess of 1-billion diversified SoCs in 2018, and SEGGER Microcontroller, a leading supplier of software, hardware and development tools for embedded systems, today announced the availability of SEGGER powerful development solutions support for Andes RISC-V processor families.

Andes RISC-V processors are based on AndeStar™ V5 architecture, which maintains the full compatibility to RISC-V technology and thus inherits its compact, modular and extensible advantages. In addition, AndeStar™ V5 architecture brings Andes-extended features already proven in high-volume V3 AndesCore™ processors to be effective and beneficial for embedded applications with enhanced performance, code size and development support. Andes RISC-V cores include ultra-compact N22 for applications such as entry-level microcontrollers and deeply-embedded protocol processing, 32/64-bit N25/NX25 for high-speed control tasks, N25F/NX25F for floating-point intensive applications and A25/AX25 for Linux-based applications.

SEGGER’s professional libraries and tools for embedded system development are designed for simple usage and optimized for the requirements imposed by resource-constrained embedded systems. The J-Link debug probes, Ozone – the accompanying debugger – and Embedded Studio – the powerful cross platform C/C++ IDE (Integrated Development Environment) – are available to support embedded system developers to create their RISC-V based embedded systems. In addition SEGGER provides an RTOS, communication and security software to help developers design their systems without reinventing everything from scratch while benefitting from SEGGER’s more than 25 years of experience in the industry.

“Andes is determined to provide the best RISC-V solutions to help our customers design SoC exceeding their expectations. We understand that embedded software development is a major part of any SoC project.” said Dr. Charlie Su, CTO and Executive VP of Andes Technology. “With SEGGER’s industry-leading development tools support, the software designers can easily and quickly develop compact, efficient embedded applications that benefit from standard RISC-V features and Andes extensions.”

"With more than 25 years of experience in the embedded industry, we at SEGGER are The Embedded Experts and produce state-of-the-art development tools which simply work. We use our own tools for development and production to make sure, that we can deliver the highest possible quality to our customers", said Alex Grüner, CTO of SEGGER. “We are pleased to support Andes RISC-V processors with our professional development solutions for easy development and faster time to market.”

For more information about Andes RISC-V processors, click http://www.andestech.com/markets.php.

For more information about SEGGER development solutions, click https://www.segger.com/.

About Andes Technology Corporation

Andes Technology Corporation is a public listed company with well-established technology and teams to develop innovative high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit processor cores and associated development environment to serve worldwide rapidly growing embedded system applications. In 2018, Andes-Embedded SoCs reach an annual run rate of over 1 billion mark with over 3.5 billion total cumulative units.

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. Its comprehensive processor offerings include a wide range of performance with efficient control, data processing, extensible and security capabilities to address the diversified embedded electronic devices, especially for connected, smart and green applications. Since 2017, Andes incorporated RISC-V technology into its AndeStar V5 architecture and released a series of performance-efficient 32/64-bit V5 processors, including N22, N25/NX25, N25F/NX25F and A25/AX25. The powerful tool for Andes Custom Extension (ACE) enables flexible Domain-Specific Acceleration (DSA) for V5 processors, and takes performance efficiency to the next level.

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

About SEGGER Microcontroller

SEGGER Microcontroller is a full-range supplier of software, hardware and development tools for embedded systems. The company offers support throughout the whole development process with affordable, high quality, flexible and easy-to-use tools and components.

SEGGER offers solutions for secure communication as well as data and product security, meeting the needs of the rapidly evolving IoT.

SEGGER was founded in 1992, is privately held, and is growing steadily. Headquartered in Germany, with US offices in the Boston area and Silicon Valley, as well as distributors in all continents, SEGGER offers its full product range worldwide.

For more information about SEGGER Microcontroller, please visit https://www.segger.com/