Corporate Fact Sheet

Business: Developing, distributing, and supporting semiconductor intellectual property (IP) products that reduce costs and enable quicker time to market for producers of electronic products.
Approach: Focus on popular and standards-based IP cores. Offer both competitive prices and the best available customer support. Avoid debt, operate lean, exploit the Web, outsource services, and employ international development partners.
History: CAST was formed in 1993 with an initial focus on intellectual property in the form of simulation models. The company evolved as design methodologies changed, and began offering IP cores in 1996.
Organization: With its lean operation model, CAST has a nearly flat organization of mostly design engineers; outsources most non-engineering functions; uses a distributed office network; and teams with international development and distribution partners who are experts in their respective areas. The company is US-based and has a development branch in the Czech Republic.
Management: Hal Barbour, President
Bill Finch, Senior VP
Newton Abdalla, VP IP & Operations
Meredith Lucky, VP Sales
Nikos Zervas, VP Marketing
Markets: CAST reduces time to market for electronics companies engaged in three main applications: development of system-on-chip (SoC) designs and using IP cores for nonproprietary portions of the product; enhancement of existing printed circuit board products and their consolidation to chips; and extension of life for existing products through obsolete parts replacement.
Channels

Direct sales; local sales partners in regions around the world (see list on the website).

Products

IP Cores — broad range of over 100 standard protocols and expert functions for custom and structured ASICs and for FPGAs, including 8-, 16-, and 32-bit processors, bus and network controllers, image and video compression, encryption functions, serial communications devices, peripheral controllers, and basic logic blocks. Platform IP — pre-integrated cores and essential software, including application platforms and processor system platforms.

Services

Custom modifications and contract development of IP cores and platform IP products.

Customers

1,000 core licenses to almost 700 customers, including telecommunications, automotive, computer, industrial control, military, and other electronics producers.

Partners

Principle Technology Partners: Alma Technologies S.A. (Greece), Evatronix S.A. (Poland)

IP Technology Partners: Fraunhofer IPM (Germany), SoC Solutions LLC (USA), Trilinear Technologies, Inc.

Semiconductor Providers: Actel Corp., Altera Corp., ARM Ltd., GigOptix, Inc., Lattice Semiconductor Corp., Xilinx, Inc.

Industry Associations & Portals: Chip Estimate (a division of Cadence Corp.), Hellenic Semiconductor Industry Association (HSIA), IP Constellations, Design and Reuse, OCP-IP, PCI-SIG

EDA and Software Partners: Aldec, Inc., Avery Design Systems, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Inc., CMX Systems, Inc., Keil Software, Mentor Graphics, nFocal, Inc., Synplicity (a Synopsys Business Group), TASKING (a division of Altium Ltd.)

Mixed-Signal Partners: Genesys Logic, Inc., JMicron Technology Corp., MOAI Electronics Corporation, Richnex Technology Co., Ltd., SMSC

Sales Partners: Alternative Systems, AmBlot SARL, Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST), BP&M Representações, Maojet Technology, PROTOtyping Japan Corp., S2C Inc., Spinnaker Systems, Vector Co. Ltd., Zumi Technology Pte Ltd.

Headquarters

11 Stonewall Court, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677
Phone: +1 201-391-8300 Fax: +1 201-391-8694
E-mail: info@cast-inc Web: www.cast-inc.com

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