Vendor: Andes Technology Corp. Category: CPU

Full-featured Real-time Application Processor

The mid-range Andes Technology N10 processor is ideal for applications ranging from consumer media players and smart glasses all …

Overview

The mid-range Andes Technology N10 processor is ideal for applications ranging from consumer media players and smart glasses all the way to touch panel processing, motor control, and power management. The N10 features a 5-stage pipeline and operates at over 800 MHz clock rate providing plenty of performance for automotive electronics and industrial control. It also comes with I/D cache or local memory options that enable the core to more efficiently perform for networking or communication applications.

In the fast growing IoT market, the highly performance efficient N10 processor can be used as IoT gateway to bridge those ZigBee, Bluetooth or WiFi sensor devices to the internet connectivity. In addition, with the tightly-coupled IEEE-754 compliant NCESFP100 single-precision floating point unit (FPU), the N10 processor can be used in the high precision sensor devices to manipulate the data from ADC which converts physical continuous sensor signals to digital data.

Key features

  • Caches for fast code and data accesses
  • Local Memories for deterministic code and data accesses
  • IEEE754-compliant FPU coprocessor
  • Memory Protection Unit (MPU) for secure RTOS
  • Memory Management Unit (MMU) for Linux

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Benefits

  • Performance
    • Highly compact program size through AndeStar™ V3 ISA
    • Single-cycle latency for most of 32-bit operations
    • Extensive branch predictions (BTB and RAS) to speed up branch control
    • MMU and MPU for memory management
    • Zero-wait-state local memory with 1D/2D DMA for mass data transfer efficiently
  • Flexibility
    • All-C Embedded Programming
    • Stack protection hardware to help determining stack size needed, and detect runtime overflow error
    • Processor state bus to simply SoC design and debugging
    • Support boot-up from instruction local memory
  • Power Management
    • Highly clock gating and logic gating
    • Low power modes initiated by SW or SoC
    • N:1 core vs. bus clock ratios
    • PowerBrake technology to reduce peak power consumption

Applications

  • Video event data recorder (VEDR)
  • Wireless device
  • Networking device
  • Storage device
  • DSC
  • DVC
  • Digital home
  • Embedded controllerr

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
AndesCore™ N1068A
Vendor
Andes Technology Corp.
Type
Silicon IP

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Provider

Andes Technology Corp.
HQ: R.O.C
Andes Technology Corporation was founded in the Hsinchu Science Based Industrial Park(SiSoft Research Center) in the first half of 2005. We devote ourselves in developing high-performance/low-power 32-bit processors and its associated SoC platforms to serve the rapidly growing embedded system applications worldwide.

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