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From DesignCon to DATEThis time of year the trade show cycle carries us forward from winter into spring like the unavoidable rush of a snow-fed river! A couple of weeks ago we had a great experience at DesignCon in Santa Clara, and now we’re finishing preparations for next week’s DATE in Munich (see below). DesignCon broke records for attendance and number of exhibitors, and we stayed quite busy demo’ing our PCI Express, H.264, and pre-integrated platform products, as well as talking about our new configurable 8051. That 8051 core is really an optimum solution for relatively straightforward systems, or as an outboard processor working with a bigger central CPU. Through the years, though, many of our customers have asked us for something a bit more powerful, but with the typical CAST benefits of high value and great support versus the offerings from those other firms with three-letter names starting with “A.” We haven’t had a good answer
before, but we’re starting
down that road now with a partnership announcement at DATE. Our
new development partner Cortus
S.A. in Our PR people refuse to let me say anything more about actual products until we do formal announcements later this spring. But I will say this: if you’re starting a project that needs an excellent 32-bit processor core, you might just want to give us a call! -- Hal Barbour, hal@cast-inc.com CAST at DATE 06The announcement of our new processors partner Cortus is our main news for DATE (get an early preview) and several of our new colleagues will be on hand if you have any questions.
Find us in
the OCP-IP Pavilion, booth number B10. Be sure to catch our paper
presentation in the theater there, PCI
Express Core Integration 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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March 6-10, 2006 About the OCP-IPWe’ve been a supporter of OCP – the Open Core Protocol – since before people even understood the many benefits of System-on-Chip design this standard “IP socket” helps enable.
You can get an OCP interface as an option for all of our cores for which this is appropriate. It’s generally in the form of a wrapper around the core’s essentials, and usually adds little extra area and no appreciable hit to performance. If you already know the OCP bus, this approach can save you significant time in system integration. If you don’t already know OCP, the OCP International Partnership (OPC-IP) is ready to help you learn. This active trade association led by Ian Mackintosh publishes the bus spec and is loaded with models, tools, white papers, case studies, and more. Check them out and consider joining. |
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