Andes Technology Corporation announced its RISC-V FreeStart program, which chief technical officer Charlie Su said aims to help ‘take RISC-V mainstream’. The program offers an easy way to build a system-on-chip (SoC) foundation on its commercial-grade RISC-V CPU core N22, available for free download. The AndesCore N22 is an entry-level, low-power RISC-V CPU which delivers a performance of 3.95 Coremark/MHz, which Andes says is the highest in its class. Its configurable features include multiplier, interrupt controller, local memory, instruction cache and debug support. With the RISC-V FreeStart program, SoC engineers can begin designing a RISC-V based SoC without having to budget for CPU IP costs upfront. To read more, please visit: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334808#]]>