Intellectual Property from CAST

CAST Inc is the largest independent supplier of IP cores and has been represented by Saros for over 10 years.  Unencumbered by providing HDL tools, CAST supply high quality, pre-verified soft core IP developed by themselves or their technical partners.  CAST maintain an exceptional business model where their core experience is in PCI and they in turn represent key technical leaders in other areas.

In a decade of business, CAST have supplied IP into 100s of projects.  The 8051 processor itself is in over 100 ASICs around the world.  CAST's success can be put down to top-quality pre- and post-sales support, design flexibility and the shipping of high-quality code.  CAST can also, at its discretion, make modifications to the cores to meet individual requirements and/or make suggestions on how to improve a customer's development.

 

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CAST IP Benefits

Using CAST IP will give you the following benefits:

  • A focus on high-quality, pre-verified VHDL and Verilog code.

  • Reduced-cost EDIF netlists available for FPGA developments

  • Modifications/Enhancements may be made to the core as appropriate

  • Cores ship with example VHDL or Verilog testbenches, even for netlists

  • Provision of full documentation, synthesis scripts and 30 days free technical support

  • Reasonably-priced annual maintenance contracts

  • Exemplary pre-sale technical discussions and post-sales support

 

CAST IP Offerings

CAST offers a wide range of IP, details of which may be found by clicking on the links below, viewing the Full CAST IP Listing page or by visiting CAST's website:

SoC Platforms
TDMI ARM7 TDMI SoC Platform
AMBA ARM7/ARM9 AMBA SoC Platform

Processors
8-bit Fully configurable RISC R8051, legacy 8051 and Z80 compatible devices
16-bit

Intel 80186, 80187 Math Co-processor and Motorola MC68000 compatible devices

Intel 387L Math co-processor for the Intel  80386SX processor
32-bit 68000-AHB 32-bit derivative of the Motorola MC68000 with AHB interface
DSP

32025 and 32025TX 16-bit (single clock per machine cycle) Digital Signal Processors

56000 24-bit compatible Digital Signal Processors
Networking
10/100 MAC 10/100 and 10/100 Lite Ethernet Media Access Controllers (drivers available)
1G MAC 1G (10/100/1000) Ethernet MAC (drivers available)

Bus Interfaces
USB USB 1.1 (Full-speed) and 2.0 (Full/High-speed) slaves, On-The-Go and OTG-Multi Peripheral Device
PCI

32-bit / 33MHz Target, Master/Target and Multi-function interface

64-bit / 66MHz Target, Master/Target interface

32-bit / 33,66 MHz PCI Host-Bridge interface
PCI Express PCI Express x1 and x4 endpoint controllers
FireWire IEEE-1394a FireWire Link Layer Controller
SPI SPI Slave and Master/Slave Serial Peripheral Interface
I2C I2C Slave and Master/Slave and High-speed I2C (version 2.1) serial bus interface cores
CAN CAN and Dual-CAN bus controllers
Parallel Port Parallel port ECP Slave and EPP Slave standards
LIN Local Interconnect Network bus controller

Multimedia
JPEG(2K) JPEG encoder/decoder/codec, LJPEG (lossless) encoder/decoder, JPEG2000 encoder/decoder, Huffman JPEG encoder/decoder
MPEG4 MPEG4 and MPEG4 Multi-Channel encoders.  Please enquire for decoders.
h.264 h.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) Baseline Encoder and Limited Decoder
I2S I2S Inter-IC Sound Bus
SPDIF SPDIF Digital Audio Interface
Transforms

2D Forward, Inverse, Forward/Inverse Discrete Cosine transforms

Block-based forward, Line-based forward and Forward/Inverse Discrete Wavelet Transforms

97FG 9/7 Discrete Wavelet Transform Filter Generator
Converters CSC Colour Space, Block-Raster, Raster-Block, Raster/Block combo

Encryption
AES AES encryption, encrypt/decrypt and programmable Advanced Encryption Standards
DES Single (DES) and Triple (3DES) Data Ecryption Standard crypto-processors
MD5 MD5 message-digest processor
SHA SHA-1 and SHA-256 Secure Hash Algorithm crypto-processors

Communication cores
UARTs H8250, H16450, H16550 (with FIFO), H16750 (with FIFO and/or IrDA) chip replacements
SDLC SDLC high-speed serial communication interface

Peripheral Devices
Devices NAND flash memory controller, SCR Smart Card Reader, TVOUT TV Display controller
DMA DMA32A 8-channel, 32-bit DMA with AMBA AHB/APB interface
GPIO GPIO 8 inputs or outputs General Purpose I/O unit

Replacements

Bit-slice proc'r

2901 4-bit compatible microprocessor slices

29101, 29116, 49402, 59106 16-bit compatible microprocessor slices
Z80 Z80 counter/timer, parallel I/O and serial I/O peripherals
16-bit proc'r Intel 80187 and i387SX math co-processors
Controllers 2909, 2910, 3910, 49410 Microprogram Controller chip replacements
DMA

8-bit 8237 DMA controller and 82380 8-bit/32-bit DMA controller with peripherals
Timer 8254 programmable counter/timer

Obsolete

CRT 6845 CRT Controller
Parallel i/f 8255 parallel interface peripheral replacement
Interrupt 8259 programmable and synchronous programmable interrupt controller replacement
Keyboard 8279 Programmable Keyboard/Display Interface
Please contact us if you require further information on obsolete products

CAST Licencing

CAST's cores are available either as fully synthesisable RTL (VHDL or Verilog) code for ASIC and FPGA projects or as EDIF netlists for a particular FPGA family.  All cores are sold for use in a single project and no royalty payments need be made to CAST.  One exception to this is the CAN core for which CAST collect royalties on behalf of Bosch GmBH.  Royalties are payable, however, to the relevant licencors for the High-speed I2C (version 2.1), FireWire 1394a, MPEG4, h.264 and AES-OCB cores.

Further Information

For detailed pricing information and availability contact Saros Technology.

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