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CAST has developed very flexible licensing terms in collaboration with our customers over the years, resulting in mutually cost-effective solutions. Our competitors can’t come close to discussing licensing with as much understanding as CAST, and it is doubtful that the large IP providers will deviate from their single-project licensing structure at all.

Among lossless data compression algorithms, GZIP, ZSTD, LZ4, and Snappy have emerged as prominent contenders, each offering unique trade-offs in terms of compression ratio, speed, and resource utilization. This white paper evaluates these algorithms and their corresponding hardware cores, providing an in-depth comparison to help developers and system architects choose the optimal solution for their specific use case.

The CAST DO-254 certified SHDLC HDLC & SDLC Protocol Controller IP Core is an effective solution for replacing obsolete parts in legacy defense and other systems.

The IEEE has officially ratified IEEE 802.1ASdm-2024, an important update to the Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) standards. This amendment enhances clock synchronization capabilities, improving the reliability and precision of real-time communication in networked systems.

Despite being 40 years old, 8051 microcontrollers can still serve useful roles in modern systems.  But integrating 8051s in today's systems with their de facto standard AMBA® buses, wider datapaths, and shared memories can seem impossible. Yet it can be done. Here we take a look at the challenges, and how to overcome them.