In this issue ...
Welcome to our tenth year
CAST has
reached a milestone that's unusual for this industry: we're celebrating
our tenth year of delivering great IP products.
Incorporated in late 1993, we initially built on our simulation
and hardware modeling roots at HHB Systems and started shipping
models
for TTL and other standard parts in 1994. Customer demand led us
to higher-level devices and to "synthesizable
models," the precursor to the IP core industry as we all
know it today.
Of course we haven't achieved ten successful years sitting alone
in the US. A key strength is our tight partnership with experts
all over the world: Evatronix
SA in Poland, Alma
Technologies in Greece, Ocean
Logic in Australia, and the Fraunhofer
Institute in Germany, and our own office in the Czech Republic.
Those of you who've asked tough technical questions and been surprised
at the quick answers know just how well
this team actually works. We've tried to roll our cultural, technical,
and even time zone differences into a cohesive package that gives
better service and better value to all our customers, and in
our tenth year -- and in a world where global differences aren't
always overcome -- we're pretty proud of succeeding.
-- Hal Barbour, President, hal@cast-inc.com
DesignCon Preview
If you're near Santa Clara next week, be sure to visit us at DesignCon.
Our live demos will include a USB
2.0 application  and
a real-time video comparison of JPEG
and JPEG
2000. We'll also be announcing a couple of interesting products:
a new Flexible
JPEG Family, and a new USB
2.0 On-the-Go (OTG) core.
The JPEG Family is a new approach that answers frequent customer
requests for a simpler, less expensive, standards-conforming
image processing core.
The
Family starts with baseline JPEG processing for a remarkably
low price, then has options you can mix and match as needed: Motion
adds video stream processing, Speed doubles the performance
of the core, and Program gives you control over the core's
many configurable options and capabilities.
All the options get rolled into the top-of-the line JPEG Super core,
representing a great value and easy solution if your needs are
extensive. See
the JPEG Family datasheet to learn more, and contact
Sales for pricing and other details. Core datasheets and additional
info will be posted on our web site after the announcement goes
public next week.
The new USB
2.0 OTG core provides a fast, configurable, ready-to-use implementation
for this new
connection technology.
OTG promises to build on the huge popularity of USB by making
it even easier to connect different digital devices. It enables
a single port to act as either a host or a peripheral device, depending
on which end of the cable gets attached. This means, for example,
you can connect your digital camera to a printer for producing
photos, to a cell phone for sharing them on the Internet, and to
a flash memory drive for archiving them, all without a host computer.
Get in touch
Give us a call (201/391-8300) or email if you'd like a private
meeting at DesignCon, or just to learn more about our new cores,
and about our plans for the next ten years!
Next up: DATE, CNIT
La Defense, Paris, France, February 17-19, 2004
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