Intellectual Property

 

Saros has been supplying soft core IP in VHDL and Verilog code for over ten years now.  In that time we have provided a range of cores to our customers including Micro-processor, USB, PCI, PCI Express, 10/100 Ethernet and Audio cores.

Interestingly, the last couple of years have shown a real change in attitude to using IP.  Nowadays, most people realise re-writing code or standards that already exists is too expensive to be feasible and distracts them from their core development resulting in a longer time to market.

 

Benefits of IP

  • Don't waste time re-inventing the wheel

  • Concentrate on your core expertise

  • Verification is already done - you just need to integrate

  • Reduce the risk across the whole development

  • Get to market quicker

 

IP Offerings

Saros now offers a larger range of IP than ever before from several suppliers.  Please click the "Further Info" links on the right for more information.  New Cores are marked in red.

SoC Platforms

 

ARM7 TDMI and ARM7/ARM9 AMBA SoC Platforms  

Further Info

MIL-STD-1553

 

Remote Terminal, Bus Controller and Bus Monitor Front End and DDC-replacement cores

Further Info

Processors

8-bit:   Fully configurable RISC R8051, 8051, Z80

16-bit:  80186, 80187 Math co-processor, 68000

32-bit:  68000 derivative

Bit-slice:  2901 4-bit and 29101/29116/49402 16-bit slices

DSP:  C32000, C56000

Further Info

Networking 

 

10/100 and 1G Ethernet MAC (drivers available)

Further Info

Bus Interfaces

USB 1.1 and 2.0 slaves, On-The-Go and OTG-Multi Peripheral Device

PCI 32/33 and 64/66 Target, Master/Target and Host-Bridge

PCI Express x1 and x4 endpoint controllers

FireWire 1394a

SPI, I2C and high-speed I2C, CAN and Dual-CAN, Parallel port ECP and EPP, LIN interfaces

Further Info

Multimedia

JPEG, JPEG2000, LJPEG for lossy/lossless still encoding and decoding

MPEG4, h.264 (MPEG4 part 10) for motion encoding

Discrete Wavelet and Forward/Inverse Discrete Cosine Transforms

I2S (Inter-IC Sound Bus) and SPDIF (Digital Audio Interface)

Block/Raster and Raster/Block converters

Further Info

Encryption

AES encryption and decryption

DES and 3DES encryption

MD5 message-digest

SHA processor and cryptoprocessor

Further Info

Serial IO

H8250 and H16450/16550/16750 UARTs

SDLC high-speed serial communication interface

Further Info

 

Peripheral Devices

2909/2910/3910/49410 Microprogram Controllers

8237/82380 8-bit/32-bit DMA controllers

DMA controller: 8-channel, 32-bit DMA with AMBA AHB/APB interface

8254 programmable counter/timer

Z80 counter/timer, parallel and serial peripherals

GPIO General Purpose I/O unit

NAND flash memory controller

SCR Smart Card Reader

TVOUT controller

Further Info

 

Pricing and Information

For detailed pricing information and availability contact Saros Technology or follow the individual links.

 

Processors, DSPs, Interfaces

Multimedia, Encryption, Serial IO,

Peripherals, ARM SoC Platforms

MIL-STD-1553 Remote Terminal

and DDC-replacement applications

Full ARM SoC sub-systems

in conjunction with CAST

 

 

 

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