Compression IP Cores

CAST Compression IP for Data, Images, and Video

Compression is critical to saving storage space and reducing bandwidth in a great number of different applications.

Choosing the right compression engine means you can optimize these savings against the quality and integrity your application requires.

We offer proven cores for Data Compression, Image Compression, and Video Compression.

Data Compression

The ZipAccel cores are hardware engines for GZIP/ZLIB/Deflate lossless compression and decompression.

Compact in silicon size, power-efficient, and significantly faster than any software codecs, these cores can be a good solution for applications from data centers to edge IoT devices.

Image Compression

Our range of image compression cores have been used in hundreds of shipping customer products over many years. It includes both lossy JPEG codecs for many typical applications, and several lossless codecs for systems requiring full image fidelity.

The lossy image compression engines include JPEG and Motion JPEG encoders and decoders, in both Baseline and Extended versions. Read more:
JPEG Image Compression Family Page

The lossless image compression engines include codecs for JPEG-LS, QOI, and PNG. Read more:
Lossless Image Compression Family Page

Video Compression

Having provided video compression cores longer than nearly anyone else, the CAST team is ready to guide you through often-complex application requirements and choose the best cores for your system These include a large variety of reliable H.264 encoders and decoders, and an H.265 decoder.