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Catching UpI'm not sure why some industry pundits say the outlook for small IP vendors is not good, because we sure don't see it that way. The past several months we’ve been extremely bus — too busy to publish any newsletter issues! — launching new products, cementing new partnerships, and working with new customers. Highlights of our recent announcements include ARC and eASIC Soc Kernels; a JPEG-LS encoder giving us more types of image compression cores than anyone else; a DSP coprocessor for our APS line; certification of our PCI Express core and a Now we’re racing to DAC next week in San Diego. We’ll be showing our full line of cores and SoC Kernels there, and featuring three things in particular: something dramatically improved, something really useful, and something a little bit fun.
JPEG 2000 does both lossy and lossless compression, and is really aimed at high-end photo and video applications (our current customers do military and satellite work we can't talk aout ... ). There are two steps in JPEG 2000 compression, the complicated math (called Tier-1), and the processing needed to make the results useful and send them out (Tier-2). Like nearly every competing core out there, our first encoder just did Tier-1, still leaving lots of pesky processing for customers to figure out. Our new version is a whole different ballgame! It includes both Tier-1 and Tier-2 – plus Bit Rate Control for constant output, and other new features – and is essentially ready to drop into a system and just do it’s thing. We expect this new encoder to be popular for a wider range of applications, including consumer products and wireless image and video transmission. Take an early look at our datasheet and news release for more info. The something really useful is a free functional simulation model of our PCI Express endpoint Finally, the something fun in the booth is a contest To call attention to all this, we’re doing one of those silly but irrestistable little contests: stop by the booth, check out APS and the slot machine demo, take a pull on the vuirtul lever, and if you win we’ll send you an Apple iPod Shuffle in the color of your choice! If you're at DAC, please stop by (even if you don't need an iPod Shuffle). And if you work for one of our 450+ customer companies, be sure to let us know; the whole booth team would like to meet you. -- Hal Barbour, hal@cast-inc.com Get in touchGive us a call (201/391-8300) or email if you'd like a private meeting at DAC next week, to comment on anything in this issue, or just to learn more about how our line of over 100 cores can work for you. |
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