Vendor: Andes Technology Corp. Category: CPU

High-efficiency Low-power Processor

System-on-chip designs are proliferating to help OEMs automate functions such as smart lights, heating and cooling, wireless door…

Overview

System-on-chip designs are proliferating to help OEMs automate functions such as smart lights, heating and cooling, wireless door locks, smoke, fire, and intrusion detection and more. SoC designers building chips for these applications need a feature rich 32-bit computing platform that provides a roadmap to enhanced functionality over time. The AndesCore™ N8 with its 3-stage pipeline design boosts the execution efficiency of today's computation algorithms, reduces memory usage, lowers customers' silicon cost, while providing a long-term roadmap for customers needing an upgrade path from 8-bit cores.

Motion, magnetic, pressure, light and temperature sensors are at the heart of IoT devices for home automation. Embedded processors to control these sensors and communicate their readings to the web must be power efficient enough to run on batteries sometimes last more than 10 years, for example the intrusion sensors on door and windows. The N8 achieves 1.82 DMIPS/MHz, which are far more computing power and energy conservation than its peers.

Key features

  • Excellent total performance deliverable
  • Vectored interrupt for low latency interrupt processing
  • Small footprint with low gate count and high code density
  • Speed-up and power reduction for Flash accesses by FlashFetch technology

Block Diagram

AndesCore ™ N820 block diagram

Benefits

  • Performance
    • 16/32bit mixable instruction format for compacting code density
    • Branch predication to speed up loop control
    • Low-latency vectored interrupt for real-time performance
    • FlashFetch technology to accelerate internal parallel and/or external
    • SPI flash memory
    • Advanced CoDense™ technology to reduce program code size
  • Flexibility
    • All-C Embedded Programming
    • Stack protection hardware to help determining stack size needed,
    • and detect runtime overflow error
    • Support boot-up from instruction Local Memory
    • Processor state bus to simplify SoC design and debugging
  • Power Management
    • Low power modes initiated by SW or SoC
    • PowerBrake technology to digitally reduce peak power consumption

Applications

  • Internet of Things (IOT)
  • Sensor hub
  • Smart thermostat controller
  • Home security/automation controller
  • Smart Gas/Water/Electronic meter
  • Personal health device
  • Wearable device
  • PC/Notebook peripheral

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
AndesCore ™ N820
Vendor
Andes Technology Corp.
Type
Silicon IP

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S2C Named Andes Technology’s 2026 Partner of the Year

本月，头部数字EDA企业思尔芯宣布，荣获RISC-V处理器IP领导厂商Andes晶心科技（Andes Technology）​颁发的“2026年度最佳合作伙伴”奖项。该荣誉旨在表彰思尔芯在RISC-V生态共建、原型验证平台支撑及联合市场拓展中与Andes晶心深度协同、持续创造客户价值的突出表现。

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