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ChipEx2010: The Major Annual Event of the Israeli Semiconductor Industry

May 4, 2010
Airport City, Israeli

 


IP that works. Experience that Counts.

CAST is an experienced IP provider offering a broad range of IP Cores and System IP products. Hundreds of electronic designers have used these for quicker, less expensive system design in ASICs, Structured ASICs, and FPGAs.

Only CAST cores give you the CAST IP Advantage:

  • Fifteen years of IP experience means CAST knows how to make IP that works.
     
  • A total focus on customers’ IP needs means CAST is not also trying to sell you tools or semiconductor manufacturing.
     
  • An engineering- not sales-based culture means CAST customers work with people like themselves and get sharp answers, fast responses, simple licensing, and good value.

Browse (to the left) or search (upper right) to find what you need in our line of 100+ IP cores and products. See below for some of our most popular products.

 

 

  • Processor Cores
  • Image & Video Cores
  • Encryption Cores
  • System IP

CAST IP Cores — Processors and Microcontrollers

Hal Barbour, president of IP provider CAST, Inc.
“The 8051 is still a real workhorse in the world of embedded controllers. We’ve had customers use them for everything from washing machines to space probes." — Hal Barbour, CAST president

The venerable 8051 8-bit processor still has a role in today's advanced systems. With hundreds of successful 8051 customers, CAST knows how to deliver 8051 IP that will work well for you.

The full-featured R8051XC2 is the fastest available 8-bit 8051. It's easy to configure for a wide range of needs, and achieves a compact, energy-efficient implementation.

The T8051 is optimized for area, yielding a tiny yet still fast processor that can fit in nearly any FPGA or ASIC system.

68000-compatible processor cores are also still popular. We offer two: the 16/32-bit C68000, and the 32-bit MBA-compatible C68000-AHB.

The EASE debugging system is available to help you perfect code running on our 8051 and C68000 processor cores.

The C32025TX is a 16-bit digital signal processor. Additional CASTcores are designed for processor chip replacement applications: C80186XL, and the Z80-compatible CZ80CPU.

CASTcores — Image & Video Compression IP

CAST has multimedia expertise and a broad range of video and image IP you won't find anywhere else:

H.264 — Baseline Advanced Video Compression (AVC) supporting 1080p and optimized to provide the highest quality images at all compression levels:
encoder

JPEG &mdasBaseline Advanced video compression supporting 1080p and optimized to provide the highest quality compression; Compact, fast, popular image compression cores:
Baseline Advanced video compression supporting 1080p and optimized to provide the highest quality compression encoder, decoder, codec, and encoder with SpeedView

LJPEG — High-quality lossless compression cores: encoder, decoder

JPEG-LS — An alternative-standard, high-quality lossless core: encoder

JPEG 2000 — A very flexible core ranging from very low bandwidth needs to very high quality images: encoder

JPEG IP sample - original Lossless JPEG, 75% JPEG 2000, 75%

Other Multimedia cores:
Color Space Converter  |  I2C Inter-IC Sound Bus  |  SPDIF Audio Interface

 

h.264 encoder ip core - still image

Learn more on our
Encryption Cores Overview
page or in our
AES White Paper (PDF)

CASTcores — Data Encryption/Decryption IP

CAST has helped nearly a hundred customers select and integrate the best data security IP for their specific applications. Our range of data security cores includes all the commonly-used encryption algorithms.

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cores

AES-P — A multi-purpose, programmable encrypt/decrypt core that achieves high data transmission rates and can change AES modes on the fly.

AES-C — An optimized encrypt/decrypt core that yields a small and fast implementation for one specific AES mode.

Data Encryption Standard (DES) Cores

DES Encrypt/Decrypt DES IP Core
DES3 Triple DES Encrypt/Decrypt IP Core

Message Digest 5 (MD5) Core

MD5 RFC1321-Compliant One-Way Hash Function IP Core

Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) Cores

SHA-1 FIPS 180-1 Compliant Secure Hash Message Digest Processing IP Core
SHA-256 256-bit FIPS 180-1 Compliant Secure Hash Message Digest Processing IP Core

CASTcores — System IP Products

Get a head start on your 32-bit processor based systems with our SoC Kernels and pre-integrated IP (PiP) platforms.

SOC Kernels are:

  • pre-integrated,
  • processor agnostic, and
  • technology independent.

They combine essential software like device drivers and boot code with multiple IP cores — timers, memory controllers, etc. — in a verified package ready for system development.

SOC Kernels are easy to expand into more complex systems, and several pre-expanded PIPs are available now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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