volume 2 — issue 1
March 5, 2003
 

New shows, new cores for a new year

As you read this, we’re exhibiting at DATE in Munich (see the article below). So far, our excitement level seems a bit higher than the attendance level, but we’re pleased to be announcing two frequently-requested new cores: a 1-Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and a 2.0 USB function controller.

These follow some pretty major multimedia cores we announced in January at DesignCon: an MPEG-4 video encoder, and a JPEG 2000 image decoder. (Greetings to all the new people who visited our booths in Santa Clara; we hope you enjoy our newsletter.)

Doing trade shows like DATE, DesignCon, and the upcoming DAC sometimes seems like a distraction from our main jobs of developing, delivering, and supporting the cores more and more designers rely on. But our travel and experiences at trade shows do have some valuable benefits.

Connecting with customers and seeing the faces — usually smiling! — of designers we’ve been helping is of course quite important. But we especially enjoy talking with people who are just beginning to consider IP-based design. You can spot the moment they realize how big a remedy our one-stop-shopping approach might be for their nightmare challenge of needing to build too much functionality in too little time. That’s when our painstaking efforts back home feel the most worthwhile.

      • Hal Barbour, President

New sources for CAST cores

Lightspeed Semiconductor introduced a new IP Alliance Program in January and announced CAST as a partner. A variety of CAST cores have been optimized for Lightspped's unique technology; you can get these Lightspeed datasheets at their web site. Also, Avnet Electronics Marketing began carrying CAST IP cores for their Avalon Reference Design System series of boards. DesignCon visitors may have seen our JPEG 2000 design paper or visited our demos in the Avnet-sponsored Reference Design Village.

CAST at DATE and in Europe

If you’re visiting DATE in Munich this week, be sure to stop by stand IP5. We’ve got some interesting demos of our IP working in Avnet reference design boards, and you can learn more about our two newly-announced cores: the MAC-1G offers 10/100/1000 Mbps in a full-featured, flexible package, while the CUSB2 provides a complete USB 2.0 function controller ready to drop into your SoC or embedded application.

You can also meet Chris Sheldon, the new VP of Operations who joined CAST last Fall. Based in the UK, Chris is the spearhead of our growing effort to help European designers reap the benefits of product development with CAST IP cores.

       • visit the DATE web site for info on the show

Tip: finding the core you need

We offer nearly a hundred different cores, but we know what matters most is the one core you need today.

If you’ve visited our web site, you know you can get right to every core page from every page in the site (just use the menus in the left margin.) But you may not know you can also get a printable list of all our cores in the form of a downloadable PDF file. Just click on the List of Cores link on the main Info page, and you’ll get a list of everything we currently offer.

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