Express Logic Joins Andes Technology Corp.'s New Internet of Things Community Knect.me(TM) to Provide Software Stack Solutions

HSINCHU, TAIWAN--(Marketwired - June 24, 2015) - Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based suppliers of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today announced that Express Logic has joined Knect.me, the new Internet of Things community that provides open-source, and commercial solutions for connected devices. Express Logic will provide the Knect community the most advanced run-time solution for deeply embedded applications, including the popular ThreadX® RTOS, the high-performance NetX™ TCP/IP stack, the FileX® embedded MS-DOS compatible file system, the new GUIX™ GUI development toolkit, and the USBX™ Host/Device USB protocol stack.

"We are pleased to contribute to Andes' Knect community," said William E. Lamie, CEO of Express Logic. "Engineering teams building IoT devices face short time to market windows and are opting to buy best in class elements that are essential to their design but not part of their core competency. Having our ThreadX RTOS and extensive middleware offerings -- FileX®, NetX™ Duo, USBX™, GUIX™, and TraceX™, designers know they have a complete solution for the IoT device they're planning to develop for the wide range of end use applications from automotive, industrial control, medical, smart energy, and many others."

"We are very pleased that Express Logic is providing their advanced run-time solutions for deeply embedded applications to the Software Stack section of the Knect community," said Charlie Hong-Men Su, Ph.D. Andes Technology CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D. "The Knect Software Stack comprises software building blocks for smart devices and Internet of Things applications, including device drivers, real-time operating systems, middleware, protocol stacks, and IoT APIs running on AndesCore. It provides choices of open source software, and production-proven, certified and optimized software by Knect partners including Express Logic to fulfill a wide range of smart products and emerging applications development requirements."

About Knect
The Knect SoC Development Platform is intended to provide SoC developers with a complete solution and is comprised of the AndesCore™ and Andes platform IP along with partners' IP. The Knect Software Stack includes choices of open source software, and production-proven, certified and optimized software by Andes partners to fulfill a wide range of smart products and emerging applications development requirements. The Knect Application Development Platforms include both FPGA based prototyping boards and ASIC based rapid development systems. For prototyping from the chip level and up, IP cores such as Bus Matrix, DMA, SPI, and I2C controller serve as building blocks for customized designs. The Knect Development Tools include the AndeSight™ IDE and the open source GNU toolchain for AndesCore. AndeSight Lite is a compact version of the Eclipse-based AndeSight IDE for free download. A no-cost evaluation version comes with all major functionality up to a code size of 32KB.

About Express Logic and ThreadX
Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Express Logic, Inc., offers the most advanced run-time solutions for deeply embedded applications, including the popular ThreadX^®RTOS, the high-performance NetX™ and NetX Duo™ TCP/IP stacks, the FileX^®embedded MS-DOS-compatible file system, the USBX™ Host/Device USB protocol stack, and the GUIX™ embedded graphical user interface development toolkit. Most products from Express Logic include full source-code and have no run-time royalties. For more information about Express Logic solutions, please visit www.expresslogic.com, call 1-888-THREADX or e-mail sales@expresslogic.com.

About Andes Technology Corporation
Andes Technology Corporation is a leader in developing high-performance/low-power 32-bit processors and its associated SoC platforms to serve the rapidly growing embedded system applications worldwide. The company's broad and deep technical expertise in microprocessor, system architecture, operating system, software tool chain development, and SoC VLSI implementation enables designers to shorten their time-to-market with quality designs. In addition, Andes' innovative configurable platform solution allows design teams to construct unique system architecture and hardware/software partitioning to achieve the optimal SoC. For more information about Andes, please visit www.andestech.com.