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An Exciting YearI hope your holidays were pleasant, and that you’ve started off 2006 with as much excitement as we here at CAST have. It’s our twelfth year of business, and both our customer base and our product line continue to grow at impressive rates. DesignCon is next week — our sixth year there — and I hope you can stop by to see what we have going on. We’re featuring two pretty advanced cores — PCI Express and H.264 — and making a significant announcement for our hugely popular 8051 family (see preview below). Plus our newest partner SoC Solutions will be there demonstrating a major step we took late last year: going beyond individual cores to offer pre-integrated, multi-core IP platforms that give you a great head start developing ARM-based systems. This
is just the beginning of what looks to be the most exciting year
ever for CAST, and for our customers. Stay tuned for more! DesignCon Preview: Demos, Demos, Demos (and a Paper)Our booth this year is twice as big as usual just to fit everything in! You probably know that H.264 is one of the hottest video technologies around. We’ll be demo’ing our H264E-E Baseline Video Encoder Core, showing the speed and quality with which it captures a live video stream. And you can learn more about how it works in the technical paper presented by Enzo Liguori from our long-time partners Ocean Logic. (Contact Sales if you’re interested in a private H.264 meeting while Ocean Logic is here.) We’re also demonstrating our PCIe-EP PCI Express Endpoint Controller Core. Announced late last year, nearing certification, and already in use at customer sites, this core offers X1 and X4 capabilities with a unique Application Interface that makes it especially easy to integrate. (Watch for an Embedded Systems Engineering article featuring this core later this year.) Our third big demo highlights our PiPs: the Pre-integrated IP Platforms we announced last Fall. These combine in one proven package everything you need — multiple cores, drivers, boot code, and RTOS support — to get going with ARM-based system development. The PIP7-TDMI works with the ARM® 7 family processors and native TDMI bus; the PIP-AMBA works with ARM® 7’s and 9’s and the standard AMBA bus. These
PiPs were developed by new CAST partners SoC
Solutions — one
of only three US firms with Approved Design Center Certification
from ARM, Ltd. Stop by our booth (913) to meet them. 8051 News: Fast, Proven, Highly-Configurable R8051XC With more than 100 chips designed using our various 8051 cores, we’ve seen them used for all sorts of applications from the everyday to the esoteric, and we’ve worked with all kinds of customers. Now with development partner Evatronix we’ve rolled the lessons from these successes (and from a few not-so-successes!) into a new flexible, configurable version of our 8051 8-bit processor core. The R8051XC Configurable 8-Bit Microcontroller Core extends our proven 8051 technology with a base processor and a range of options for various functions and peripherals capabilities. Like the popular R8051 and R80515 cores it replaces, the R8051XC executes instructions with fewer machine cycles to run an average eight times faster than the original 80C51. You can buy configurations that match the R8051 or the R80515, any custom configuration that we help you define, or the fully configurable version so you can make whatever variations you want. Take an early look at next week’s news release to learn more. Get in touchGive us a call (201/391-8300) or email if you'd like a private meeting at DesignCon, or just to learn more about how our line of over 100 cores can work for you. |
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