We offer a broad family of microcontroller and microporcessor related cores, from the best-available set of proven 8051s through capable and competitive 32-bit BA22s.

BA22 32-bit Processors
Family Guide
Deeply Embedded
Embedded
Application Processor
Platform
Dev Systems

Other 32-bit Processors
68000 for AHB
80251

Part of our image and video cores family, these compression cores support more codecs than you'll find from any other single provider, all designed to yield the highest quality results.

JPEG 2000
Encoder
J2K Platform

Lossless Compression
LJPEG Encoder
LJPEG Decoder
JPEG-LS Encoder

These functions complement the compression codecs in our image and video cores family, helping you rapidly build efficient SoCs for image or video applications.

Image Scalers
Polynomial
Frequency Domain
• Anisotropic
 

Video Deinterlacers
Basic
Motion Adaptive

Graphics Processors
2D Accelerator

Functions & Converters
Color Space Converter
DCT forward
DCT inverse
DCT forward/inverse

These memory controller cores work alone or with our processors and codecs to complete your demanding SoC.

SDRAM Controllers
Mobile SDRAM
DDR1 & DDR2

Our broad family of interface and interconnect cores includes high-speed PCI Express, common IOs like USB, and cntrollers popular for specific applications such as the CAN bus for automotive systems.

Parallel
ECP slave
ATA/IDE interface

PCI — Target
32-bit
32-bit multi
64-bit
PCI — Master
32-bit
32-bit multi
64-bit
PCI — Host Bridge
32/66

TCP/IP Stacks
UDP/IP stack

Ethernet MAC
Device Controllers

10/100
10/100 lite
Gigabit
Gigabit lite
Gigabit PCS

MAC Platforms
MAC/PCI
Embedded Platform

Customers find these cores to be an excellent solution for preserving existing product board designs when critical chips are no longer available for purchase.

8- and 16-bit Processors
Z80 CPU
6502 replacement
65C02 replacement
68000
80186XL
80186EC
80188EC
80251
387L math

DSPs
32025 16-bit
32025TX 16-bit

 

 

 

 

 

Peripherals
DMA Controllers
8237, 82380
UARTs
16450S
16550S
16750S
Timer/Counter
8254

Cores for integrating security, controlling devices and displays, and more.

Device Controllers
smart card reader

Displays
TV
high-res displays
ultra-res displays

IR Remote Controls
RC5
NEC

Audio Interfaces
I2S-SC
I2S-MC
SPDIF

Standard Parts
synthesis
simulation

PCIe Info

PCIe Overviews

WIkipedia Article
PCI-SIG PCIe intro page

Certified Products

See the PCI-SIG Integrators List

Technical Article

Avoiding unexpected challenges in PCI Express core integration, April, 2006, Embedded Computing Design

News Releases

06/13/05 CAST Announces PCI Express Endpoint Controller IP Core

Avery04/11/07 CAST Selects Avery Design Systems for PCI Express Verification IP

Presentation

Download our DATE 06 slides: PCI Express Core Integration with the OCP Bus

 

PCI Express IP Cores

This page provides resources and helpful links for designers using PCI Express cores, as well as an introduction to CAST's line of IP cores for PCIe.

PCIe Simulation Model Download

Qualified designers can get our PCIe Core Backend Model for free. This package has everything you need to simulate a complete system using our Endpoint Controller core (in Verilog, for ModelSim). Run the included Test Cases and Design Example, or write your own system code, and learn more about PCI Express at the critical transaction packet level.

Read more and register for the download >>>.

 

CAST PCI Express Cores

The CPXP-EP Endpoint Controller Core for PCI Express features an Application Interface module for easier integration with less knowlwdge of PCIe internal details.

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The CPXP-EPx8 PCI Express Endpoint Controller Core with SoC Bridge Extensions for AMBA™ AXI Core implements a PCI Express endpoint controller that is compliant with PCI Express Base specification 1.1, including the Transaction, Data Link, and Physical protocol layers. It is available to act as a bridge to the standard AMBA™ AXI bus.

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CAST CPCP-EPx8 PCIe Core Block Diagram

 

The PCIEXPAIF Application Interface Core for Altera and Xilinx FPGA PCIe Hard IP is designed to provide connection between the FPGA PCIe Hard IP block and SoC local bus. Supported SoC busses are Wishbone, AMBA™ AHB and AMBA™ AXI.

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pciexpaif block diagram

 

 

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