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CAST Expands System IP Offerings with Embedded Internet and USB Subsystems
Woodcliff Lake, NJ, March 7, 2008
Pre-Integrated, Pre-Verified IP Subsystems to be Demonstrated at DATE 2008 Exhibit in Munich
CAST Releases Improved IP Core for Controlling Large NAND-Flash SSD Memories
DesignCon Conference, Santa Clara, California, Febuary 5, 2008
Third-generation IP core improves capacities, performance, and features to handle new 64GB solid state device NAND Flash memories
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Simulation Demonstrates PCIe Core IP's Capabilities
Electronic Design — July 23, 2007
Intellectual property (IP) provider CAST Inc. has created a free, downloadable simulation model of its PCI Express (PCIe) IP core. The PCIe Core Backend Model (CBM) Demo of the CAST CPXP-EP PCI Express endpoint controller enables designers to simulate a system with the core at the transaction-layer level. ...
Cultivating
a Company in Cyberspace
Kauffman eVenturing — March 1, 2007
When I started Lineage and four friends of mine simultaneously started
Computer Aided Software Technologies, now merged as CAST, we worked for
zero salary the first year—and the second year wasn't . ...
CAST
debuts new DDR and DDR2 IP core
Electronic News — January 31, 2007
Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST Inc. at this week's
DesignCon 2007 announced a new IP core that it claims implements a controller
for all industry-standard DDR and DDR2 memory devices. ...
Amba
Platform IP runs on structured ASICs
Electronicstalk— January 12, 2007
Cast, which joined the company's newly established eZ-IP Alliance programme,
will partner with eASIC to provide customers with the essential IP cores
and software infrastructure for eASIC's soft ARM926EJ microprocessor core.
The PIP-Amba package will enable designers to successfully and rapidly
build ...
Digging
out the gold
IET — August 2006
Hal Barbour, president and CEO of Cast, said his company has taken a different
approach to providing hardware IP. Rather than looking for large companies
with spare IP, Cast concentrates on small suppliers. “Around 30-40%
are our own developments, but, increasingly, cores are coming from our
partners. Every single core is supported by the original developer. That
provides extremely fast technical support.” ...
32-bit
processor IP offers lower-cost lower-power alternative
Electronic Products — May 2006
Device targets designs needing more horsepower than an 8-bit 8051 core
— The APS2 and APS3 processor IP cores use a RISC architecture in
a full 32-bit design ...
Will
Blog for Food — Coffee with CAST in Santa Clara
EDA Weekly — May 15, 2006
You gotta give it to Hal Barbour, president at CAST, for enthusiasm and
joie de vivre. Have you ever seen a guy so excited about life, technology,
or IP? I only had 45 minutes for coffee with Hal at the Double Tree Hotel
this afternoon, along with the executives from Cortus, SA, who together
are announcing a new line of 32-bit microprocessor cores they're calling
the APS family of cores, which stands for Advanced Processing Solution.
Processor
cores target embedded designs
Embedded.com — May 16, 2006
Woodcliff Lake, NJ —CAST, Inc. has announced the immediate availability
of a new line of 32-bit microprocessor cores for the embedded systems
market. The first two processors in Advanced Processing Solution (APS)
family of cores, the APS2 and APS3, were developed by CAST's partner Cortus,
SA, in France.
CAST
Targets Small, Fast Systems with Low-Power, 32-bit Cores
Electronic News — May 16, 2006
Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST Inc. today announced
the immediate availability of a new line of 32Bit microprocessor cores
for the embedded systems market.
New
Microprocessor Cores
Technology News Daily — May 2006
Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. and microprocessor
developer Cortus S.A. today announced they are partnering to develop,
market, and support new microprocessor IP cores.
Processor
cores target embedded designs
global-electronics.net — May 2006
CAST, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of a new line of 32-bit
microprocessor cores for the embedded systems market. The first two processors
in Advanced Processing Solution (APS) family of cores, the APS2 and APS3,
were developed by CAST's partner Cortus, SA, in France...
CAST
claims 32-bit processor uses just 7k gates
ElectronicsWeekly.com — May 15, 2006
Intellectual property (IP) provider CAST is offering a range of 32-bit
microprocessor cores developed by French design partner Cortus, SA...
Panel:
EDA and IP vendors subservient to consumer
EE Times — May 12, 2006
CHELMSFORD, Mass. — If EDA vendors want to participate in the consumer
electronics market they will need to step up their efforts to provide
system-level design tools, according to an EDA Consortium panel ...
Avoiding
unexpected challenges in PCI Express core integration
Embedded Computing Design — April, 2006
As a fast, versatile, and popular interface, PCI Express (PCIe) is a natural
candidate for development as an IP core for easy reuse. However, more
than conformance to the PCIe specification is required to make such a
core a success for designers hoping to minimize how much PCIe technical
detail they need to understand. With this in mind, Tony and Nick evaluate
three approaches to PCI core integration.
Evatronix
SA successfully completes High-Speed USB On-The-Go compliance testing
procedure for its USB OTG controller core
D & R Headline News — January 25, 2006
The silicon Intellectual Property (IP) provider, Evatronix S.A., announced
today successful accomplishment of the certification procedure for compliance
of its USBHS-OTG-SD-S controller core to the Universal Serial Bus 2.0
specification and its On-the-Go supplement. The compliance testing ...Evatronix
IP cores are available world wide through the distribution network of
its strategic partner CAST, Inc. (www.cast-inc.com)...
An
IP Provider Pursues IP Quality
VSI Alliance — January, 2006
With twelve years experience delivering IP products, we at CAST have learned
through "trial by fire" that quality really does matter. We
learned that it's critical to clearly and completely describe what a core
is supposed to do ...
IP
Key to FPGA Market
Chip Design Magazine — January, 2006
What will be the hot FPGA, S-ASIC and embedded DSP/processor trends for
2006 that both chip- and board-level developers should know? Judging from
conversations with semiconductor and EDA companies who attended the recent
Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV, the answer is "intellectual
property."
With
a Watchful Eye
Electronic News — August 26, 2005
Competition in the electronic design automation (EDA) space is fierce.
One minute companies are in a legal battle, the next, one is acquiring
the other. Companies in other industries partner with more success –
why not EDA? ...
Is
Bigger Better? What Does the Future Hold for Small IP Providers?
Chip Design Magazine — June/July, 2005
Currently, reuse is becoming increasingly important in silicon design.
At the same time, large EDA companies are emerging in the IP market. With
these trends...
Creo
Uses CAST IP Cores in Advanced Leaf Aptus Digital Camera
Commercial Photography — June 13, 2005
Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. today revealed
that the Leaf® Aptus digital camera backs announced last month by
Creo Inc. employ CAST IP cores for image compression and decompression.
Tezzaron
Chooses CAST IP Core for First Ever Stacked 3D IC Processor
SYS-CON MEDIA — May 19, 2005
Manufacturing fast, efficient 8051 core with patented vertical connection
and wafer stacking technology produces processor with ...
A
Modest Approach to the IP Businesss that's Succeeded for Over Ten Years
DATE 2005, Bill Finch
Download this PDF presentation on CAST's successful approach to the IP
business.
Actel
Announces Immediate Availability of 90 IP Cores for New ProASIC3 and ProASIC3E
FPGA Families
SOC central — January 24, 2005
Actel Corp. has announced the availability of 90 intellectual property
(IP) cores to support its new ProASIC3 and ProASIC3/E device families
introduced today.
In-Depth: IP for FPGAs – Where, What and How Much?
Embedded Systems Engineering — September 21, 2004
As programmable devices get larger, one route to get products to market
quickly is the use of IP. Instead of macros for MUXs or adders, designers
can embed entire processors and significant I/O blocks. To introduce our
look at IP and FPGAs, ESE examines what is available through the FPGA
manufacturers.
Economy FPGAs gain CAN and FireWire IP support
ElectronicsTalk — September 7, 2004
Lattice Semiconductor Corp and its IP partner CAST have developed intellectual
property (IP) support for the new LatticeECP-DSP and LatticeEC FPGA device
families.
FPGA
Designers Benefit from CAST's Low-Volume IP Pricing Program
Embedded Star — February 20, 2004
Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. announced
a European program aimed at making it easier for FPGA designers to benefit
from the high-quality IP cores typically used for ASIC designs. The new
program, FPGAenable, introduces special pricing for the low-volume production
runs typically associated with FPGA-based products – a dominant
sector in the European electronics market. Pricing for these low-volume
licenses varies by core, but the result is the ability to design-in IP
cores at a cost of just few Euros per manufactured unit. ...
CAST
Targets High-Bandwidth Digital Connections with 1394a IP Core
Embedded Star — February 20, 2004
Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. announced
a new 1394a core that implements a link layer controller for the high-speed
digital bus known commercially as FireWireTM and i.LinkTM.
The IEEE 1394a standard was developed for use with digital
video and other demanding applications arising from the convergence of
computers and consumer products. It defines a high-bandwidth serial interface
with real-time data transmission rates of 100, 200, and 400 Mb/sec. It
...
Approved
cores speed programmable system design
ElectronicsTalk — September 11, 2003
The ispLeverCore Connection marks a new level of collaboration between
Lattice and independent developers of IP to expand both the market reach
of the partners, and the applications support for leading FPGA and field
programmable system chip (FPSC) devices from Lattice.
The ispLeverCore Connection is a partner programme designed
to allow customers to easily access and integrate many 3rd-party IP products
...
CAST
Introduces HC05 and HC11 Compatible Cores
Embedded News Digest — June, 2003
Intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. announced two new cores
that are 100% software compatible with the popular M68HC05 and M68HC11
microcontroller families from Motorola. According to CAST, these cores
provide better performance and features than the originals and have been
silicon-proven in several ASIC ...
CAST
Releases MPEG-4 and JPEG 2000 IP Cores
EMedia — Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. has announced
the addition of new MPEG-4 video encoding and JPEG 2000 image decoding
cores to its line of general purpose IP for electronic design.The CAST
MPEG-4 core is small and fast -- capable of handling real-time encoding
of full-screen video in under 50,000 ASIC gates -- and supports a range
of applications from high-quality video conferencing to remote streaming
of DVD-quality movies...
System-on-Chip
and ASIC Design Conference Reference Design Paper -- A New Reference Design
Development Environment for JPEG 2000 Applications
DesignCon Presentation — January 2003
The newest revisions to standards for video processing, like JPEG and
MPEG are becoming available and are expected to create new applications
and markets. Hardware implementations of these standards will be available
first in the form of IP Cores for FPGAs. A reference design based on a
Xilinx FPGA development board from Avnet Design Services and IP Cores
from CAST have been combined to create a reference design for the newest
versions of the JPEG and MPEG standards. The paper will describe the features
and functionality of the design as well as the size, performance and cost
of the final circuit board implementation. This Reference Design will
be demonstrated in the Reference Design Village... Download
Presentation
Motion-processing
cores cast for real-time systems
EETimes — October 14, 2002
Semiconductor intellectual-property (IP) provider Cast Inc. says that
a series of motion-processing cores for high-performance video compression
and decompression will make it possible to develop real-time video systems
such as digital video recorders, wireless communication devices, sophisticated
surveillance systems and other products using the MPEG-2 and newer MPEG-4
standards.
First out of the chute in the planned series is the MoPro core, created
by Cast partner Ocean Logic Pty Ltd. in Australia ...
IP
Cores for Motion Processing
e-inSITE— October 4, 2002
Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. has introduced
a new series of motion processing cores for video compression and decompression
applications. The technology is targeted at digital video recorder, wireless
communication, surveillance system applications.
"Our MoPro core gives graphics system developers a powerful engine
to drive all their video applications, while our MPEG cores will provide
the benefits of specific algorithms in ready-to-roll IP, bringing full
motion video to a wider range of smaller, cheaper products," said
company president Hal Barbour in a prepared statement ...
CAST
80186-compatible processor core is six times faster
EETimes Asia — March 7, 2002
Claimed to be six times faster than Intel's 80C186 processor, the C80186TX
microprocessor core is suitable for use in embedded controller applications
and provides a cost-effective alternative for replacing older parts that
are no longer manufactured ...
CAST
Expands IP Core Lineup
e-inSITE — January 28, 2002
The new offerings consist of a MAC Ethernet Media Access controller, 64-bit
PCI-T64 and PCI-M64 target interfaces and a CAN Bus controller ...
Programmable
arrays: encroaching on MCUs
Embedded Systems Engineering — October 15, 2001
Another programme of alliances has linked Xilinx with ... Cast, Inc. to
produce four 8051 8-bit microcontroller cores. These run at up to eight
times the performance of legacy 8051 microcontrollers ...
CAST
Launches IP Cores For Multimedia Applications
e-inSITE — October 3, 2001
The cores are targeted at applications employing the discrete cosine transform
(DCT) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) algorithms ...
Xilinx
Does Away With IP Lawyers
Electronic News — September 10, 2001
Xilinx Inc. of San Jose wants to make life easier for intellectual property
(IP) core makers.The FPGA vendor today will unveil its SignOnce IP license
program designed to eliminate the legal aspects of signing and using IP
cores .... (CAST is a charter participant.)
Design
Entry, IP Highlight DATE
Electronic News — March 26, 2001
Munich, Germany-If the current growth trend continues, in a few years
DATE-the yearly Design, Automation and Test in Europe forum-will be as
big as the Design Automation Conference (DAC). At least, that's what the
organizers of this year's ... Woodcliff Lake, N.J.-based CAST Inc. and
its development partner Evatronix SA of Bielsko-Biala, Poland, announced
the release of two new synthesizable cores: the C32025 DSP core, compatible
with the Texas Instruments Inc.'s TMS320C25, and the CZ80CPU processor
core, compatible with the Zilog Z80.
Program
makes better use of IP in FPGAs
ElectronicsTalk.com — March 22, 2001
After six months of beta testing, the FPGA OpenMORE program is now available
to the semiconductor design community with endorsements from trial users
such as CAST and Telecom Italia Lab ....
CAST
and FS2 Partner to Provide SOC Debug Capabilities
EEDesign.com — January 30, 2001
DesignCon - CAST, Inc. and First Silicon Solutions, Inc. (FS2) today announced
a joint effort to make embedded processor cores easier to debug ...
Altera
optimizes Quartus II software; Cast delivers UART
EEDesign.com — June 11, 2001
Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) says its incremental-design methodology
will make it easier for programmable-logic designers to accelerate methodologies
involving team-based designs, integration of cores and performance optimization
for any hierarchical ...
Cores
arrive in a dozen
EDN — January 18, 2001
Xilinx's IP Center is offering 12 new cores for its Virtex and Spartan
series FPGAs that target a wide spectrum of applications, ranging from
modems and channel coding, to video and PowerPC-based designs. ... Cast
(www.cast-inc.com), is providing two types of 8051 microcontrollers, plus
the 8254 programmable interval timer/counter and an 8250 UART core ...
Core
Competency
Electronic Engineering Times — January 08, 2001
Cast Inc. (Woodcliff Lake, N.J.) has added four cores designed for use
in systems with 8051 and other popular microprocessors to its lineup of
MPU peripheral cores ...
Cultivating
a Company in Cyberspace
by
Hal Barbour EntreWorld.org — December 2000
Behind every virtual company is some very real, sophisticated machinery
...
CAST
Rolls Four Cores
Electronic News — December 12, 2000
CAST Inc. of Woodcliff Lake, N.J., today has taken the wraps off four
additions to its family of intellectual property cores targeted at electronic
design ...
Date
yields testimonials and processor cores
EEDesign.com — April 10, 2000
Several companies test-driving standards crafted by the Virtual Socket
Interface Alliance (VSIA) reported success with their projects at the
Date 2000 conference in Paris. ... Elsewhere at Date 2000, Cast Inc. (Pomona,
N.Y.) announced the availability of two new cores, the C68000 microprocessor
and the PIC 165X RISC microcontroller, both developed by partner Evatronix
in Gliwice, Poland ...
LightSpeed Adds CAST Cores
EETimes — January 24, 2000
Lightspeed Provides Pre-Verified Netlist Cores from CAST, Inc. Enabling
Low-Cost, Fast Time-to-Production MBA Solutions...
Virtual
company reshapes corporate reality
Electronic Engineering Times — July 15, 1999
... While retailers and other businesses try to figure out how to use
the Web to augment their real-world facilities, a spate of startups is
making the Net the essence of their operations ...
Synopsys
releases IP rating tool
Electronics Business News — December 11, 1998
Web-based system measures reusability of cores for SOCs
Synopsys Inc. has introduced a Web-based IP rating system that the company
says will make it easier for system-on-a-chip designers to select the
right cores for their designs ... CAST is a pilot member
Cast
spins three soft cores
Electronic Engineering Times — July 6, 1998
Core provider Cast Inc. has unveiled three new VHDL soft cores: the Soft
Decision Viterbi, the C49402 synthesizable VHDL core and the C6845 CRT
controller ....
New
ASIC and DSP cores
Integrated System Design — August 1997
Cast has added several synthesizable cores to its ASIC Cores Series and
released a new family of synthesizable cores ...
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