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CAST IPfor ASICs and FPGAs:

Introduction and Overview

August 2014

Introduction and Overview

Who is CAST?

How do we provide “A Better IP Experience”

What products are available?IP CoresIP Platforms

Why Choose CAST?

CAST Intro & Overview2

About CAST

Successful IP provider/developer/partnerTwenty years experience delivering IPPrivately held, financially stableBased in NJ (USA), with international partner network

Unique market approachWe only do IP, designed for reusabilityIndependent of semiconductor technologies and EDA toolsBroad range of IP, featuring:

32- and 8-bit processors/controllers, Video & Image Compression, and the Interfaces, Peripherals, Memory Controllers, and other IP to build complete systems around them


Expert Development Team


All products developed by CAST or tightly-coupled partners

Multimedia PlatformsSerial Communications High-Speed Buses System Integration

Processor PlatformsAMBA Infrastructure IP

Image/Video CompressionMemory ControllersEncryption

Automotive BusInterfaces

Video Codecs& Interfaces

32-bit Processors& Platforms

Graphics & Display Processors

ExtendedPartner Network

IP Development Partners

Semiconductor Providers

Industry Associations & Portals

Mixed-Signal Partners

EDA & Software Partners

Technical Partners

Sales Partners

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Extreme Customer Focus

Global team of ~100 peopleCAST offices in East and West coast USA, Brazil, and EuropeSales/support partners in Middle East and Asia

24/7 culture with very fast responseAlways online with Email, IM, home officesActual IP developers available to help with support

Experience with diverse customers and applications

Pre-sales help in selecting the right IP Post-sales support during system integration


Americas50%

Asia41%

Europe9%

2013 Customers by Region

“A Better IP Experience” ?Proven, high-quality IP products

Broad line from a single, successful provider

Competitive pricing and simple licensing

Ready to use: docs, scripts, testbenches, etc.

Less riskFlexible products

EDA-independent, technology-neutralRTL source or FPGA netlist

Knowledgeable, technical sales team1,900 sales to 800 customersWe know the questions you should be asking

A stable, reliable IP providers with hundreds of design wins

Superior supportBased on 20 years working with IP customers


CAST makes designing with reusable IP a better experience, from your first "make versus buy” considerations through the successful completion of your product.

“We have been working with CAST IP for the last two years for our state-of-the-art 3D camera. We have found their knowledge of system design to be very helpful for completing our project. CAST’s high level of support has been critical to our success.”— Eli Larry

Electronic Group Manager, 3DV Systems (now owned by Microsoft)

Customer Successes


“iSine provides custom ASIC and SoC solutions to multiple market segments. The quality and support of CAST IP cores have saved us valuable time to market with these products. In this highly competitive environment, this advantage is critical to the success of our company.

CAST has repeatedly and quickly helped us out of last-minute jams and multi-vendor IP interface issues.“— Robert Gross

Senior EngineeriSine, Inc.

(see www.isine.com)

GIT Japan Uses CAST 8051 in AIST’s MEMS-EFS Electrostatic Sensor“CAST’s efficient, easy-to-use

8051 core was an excellent solution for our challenge of building AIST’s innovative electrostatic field sensor system.”— Yoshinori Nakagawa, Design Engineer,

GIT Japan

Customer Successes


“The CAST CAN core has been successfully integrated into our new night vision camera product, which has already been shipped to one of our customers. The configuration of the core you have provided fit perfectly with our requirements so we decided to use it as is without any modification. Overall, I think that the core's performance was excellent, while the detailed documentation contributed a lot to the fast integration of the core into our system.”

CAST JPEG IP Core Helps Kapsch TrafficCom Handle Real-Time Image Compression

“The IP-core is well documented and has fulfilled our demands in all aspects of quality, performance, efficient usage of FPGA-resources as well as configurability. “

— Erik Larsson, Product Mgr. for Video and Sensor Solutions, Kapsch TrafficCom, 2010

Processors and ControllersBA2x 32-bit Processor Family:Royalty-free high performance with low power

8051 IP leader for many years

Video and Image CompressionVideo: the highest quality H.264 encoders

Image codecs: the most choices, JPEG to J2K

Graphics ProcessingSingle- and multi-core GPUs

2D/2.5D Graphic Accelerator

Multilayer LCD Display Controller

IP for Complete SoCsPCIe, CAN, SPI, and other Interfaces

Ethernet MAC & IP Stacks

Encryption, Memory Controllers, more

CAST IP Highlights


IP Products

VIDEO & IMAGE COMPRESSION

H.264/AVC: Baseline, Main & High Profile Encoders & Decoder

RTP Stack; Video Over IP Subsystem, Application Platform

JPEG 2000:Encoder, Platform

JPEG: Encoder, Decoder, Codec Scalado Speedtag 12/8-bit Extended Encoder & Decoder

Lossless: LJPEG Encoder, DecoderJPEG-LS Encoder

SECURITY & ENCRYPTION

AES programmable, GCMDES, 3DESMD5SHA-1, SHA-256

GRAPHICS & PERIPHERALS

Graphics Processors:Nema Multicore GPUSingle-Core GPU2D/2.5D Graphics Accelerator

Display Controllers:Multilayer LCD Display

NOR Flash Controllers:Serial & Parallel NOR Flash

Device Controllers:Smart Card Reader

Network Stacks:UDP/IP StackHardware RTP Stack

Data Link Controllers:SDLC & HDLC

AMBA Infrastructure Cores &

AHB 32-bit DMA

Legacy Peripherals:DMA ControllersUARTs, Timer/Counter

CONTROLLERS & PROCESSORS

32-bit BA2x FamilyApplication Processors

Full & BasicEmbedded Processors

Real-TimeDeeply

EmbeddedLow-Power

Dev & Debug Packages

8051 Compatibles: Super-Fast AdvancedFast MatureLegacy-Configurable


INTERCONNECTS

DisplayPort Transmitter, Receiver

Ethernet MAC

PCI Express X1/X4 & X8controllers, app interface

PCI Targets, Masters, Host Bridges & AHB interfaces

Serial: CAN, CAD FDI2C, LIN, SPI

BA2x 32-bit Processors Competitive

Fast — up to 1.7 DMIPS/MHz,2.44 Coremarks/MHzSmall — low as 15k gatesPower-Saving — low as 0.02mW/MHzEfficient — class-leading code density

Complete Integration — 8051-like peripherals bundlingEcosystem — programming tools, libraries, dev kits

AttractiveProduction-proven and royalty-free


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BA2™ ISA Extreme Code Density

Code Memory consumes many times more resources than any processor

Denser code means much less static & dynamic energy usage

BA2x code is significantly denser than any other

Uses variable length instructions: 16-, 24-, 32-, and 48-bit

32 general purpose registers versus

16 GPRs typical

Optimized compiler

Superior density measures20% better density than Thumb-2(customer evaluation)best CSiBE benchmark resultsCAST Intro & Overview13

Area (Kgates) for Processors & Code Memory

CSiBE GCC Benchmark Code Size Results

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BA25 Advanced Application ProcessorARM® Cortex-A7/A8 class

BA22-AP Basic Application Processor Applications using off-chip instruction & data memories; may need to run a full OS

Similar to ARM® Cortex-A5/A7, ARM 9/11 class

BA22-RT Real-Time Embedded ProcessorApplications using off-chip instruction & data memories that may need an RTOS

Similar to ARM® Cortex-R series class

BA22-DE Deeply-Embedded SystemsApplications using on-chip instruction & data memories

Similar to ARM® Cortex-M0/M3 class

BA21 Low-Power Deeply-Embedded ProcessorSimilar to ARM® Cortex-M0 series class

Complete GNU Tool Chain for Windows or Linux

Cycle-Accurate Instruction Set Simulator (ISS)

JTAG Debugging

Ported C libraries and OSs

Software Build ToolsBeyondStudio for Eclipse IDE: ISS, JTAG DebuggingSupport by Lauterbach TRACE32

Development Board KitsTalos-1 for BA22-DERaptor for BA22-RT & BA22-AP

BA2x System Development


Customer-Proven

OptoMotive GigE Vision v2.0 Camera2048x1088, 340 fps, PoE and more

BA22 Processor CoreRuns Linux OS providing tftp, web,...GigE Vision v2.0 software stackInitialization and control of camera functions

” We went from licensing the BA22 processor [to] tape-out in just five months. … Despite our stringent requirements, integration and software development was straightforward.”— Ram Rangarajan,

Vice President, ImaginginSilica

8051 CoresBuilt on 15 years of 8051 experience

Fourth-generation code, proven products

Hundreds of core sales, scores of different applications & customers

Shipped in hundreds of millions of customer units

Solutions for quicker development and verification

Seamless interface to Keil, and IAR 8051 software dev tools

Embedded software debugging package

Royalty-free licensing


“CAST’s 8051 controller offered the best combination of features, performance, and terms that we could find.

The proven track record of both the 8051 core and the support team at CAST give us great confidence as we pursue this next great engineering challenge.”

— Emad Afifi, VP Engineering Ensphere Solutions, Inc.March 2013

8051 Cores


Up to 26.85x DMIPS/MHz

of original 80c51 (12.1x for 8-bit)

Up to 800 MHz

Power usage from 2.3 µW/MHz

CPU area from 6.5k gatesS8051XC3

0.252 DMIPS/MHz - 26.85x faster than originalAdvanced power management support, including DFS

R8051XC2 12.1x faster than originalMature code, shipping in millions of devices

L8051XC1 Matches timing and peripherals of older 8051-based MCUs Replaces obsolete parts, and/or enables reuse of your legacy code

8051 Cores


Graphics Processing Cores


Think2.5D

LCD-CTRLThinkLCD-ML

NemaThinkVG

Display Controllers

Graphics Accelerator

Graphics Processing Units

Display Interfaces DisplayPort

DirectFB, Android HWC

OpenVGOpenCLOpenGL|ES

Text and Bitmaps2D-Graphics

Rich 3D-Graphics3D-Graphics

Display Controller CoresLCD-CTRL ThinkLCD-ML

Max Resolution 1024x768 32kx32k

Pixel Formats RGB 24/16-bit RGB 24/16-bit, RGBX/XRGB 32/16-bit, YUYV, Greyscale, RGB232

Color Space Conversion No YesColor Palette Yes Yes (per layer)Graphics Layers 1 4Alpha Blending (Overlays) No YesScaling No YesCursor Support No Fixed of ProgrammableDithering, Gamma Correction, Brightness, Contrast No Yes

SoC- Bus Interface AHB 32-bit AHB 32-bit or AXI 32/64-bit Pixel DMA Yes YesLinux Frame Buffer Drivers No Yes

Graphics Accelerators and GPUs

Think2.5D ThinkVG Nema

APIDirectFB,

Android HWC,OpenWF

OpenVG 1.1OpenCL (now)OpenGL (soon)OpenVX (2015)

Bliting Yes No No

Blending Yes Yes Yes

Drawing Engine Yes Yes Yes

Texture Mapping Optional Yes Yes

Shading No Yes Yes

Rasterization No Yes Yes

Architecture Acceleration (Custom) Pipeline

Unified Shader Plus Accelerators(Single Core)

Unified Shader Plus Accelerators(Multi-Core)

ThinkVG: Vector GPU

Smallest & lowest power GPU in the market

Just 160k gates, excluding memories

OpenVG API allows your exploit the power of Scalable Vector Graphics

Compatible with popular formats (flash, PDF, Vector Fonts etc)

Ideal for Mobile Devices requiring mid-range graphics at the lowest possible power (e.g. mobile phones or handhelds)

Think2.5D: Use Cases

Standalone 2D/2.5D Graphics Accelerator

Graphics-enabled, Android, Linux, or OS-less devices such as car infotainment, GPS, PDAs, Game machines, Set-top boxes, TVs and any device with similar level Graphical User Interface

Composition Engine next to a 3D GPUFor devices with advances Graphics requirements, such as tablets, PCs, and smartphones Think2.5D assigned the simpler composition tasks, and let the GPU work on 3D rendering or sleep

Think2.5D: Why Consider?

Ultra Low PowerHigh performance (2-4 pixel per clock) allows operation at lower frequenciesSmall silicon footprint (just 70kGates) Optional frame buffer compression, for reduced memory bandwidthCommand lists for lower CPU overhead

Highly FeaturedAdvanced Blit and Blend, Font Rendering, and Pseudo-3D (via projections)

Extensive Software Support

Linux, Qt, GTK: DirectFB, OpenWFAndroid: Android HWCDeeply Embedded: Bare-metal API


Nema Configurable GPU

One to many Clusters interconnected with proprietary NoC and sharing external memory

Cluster:1-4 Cores sharing caches + Texture Engine (on/off) + Graphics Accelerators (on/off)Core (Unified

Shader):Up to 128 threadsConfigurable number of pipeline stagesConfigurable support of special functions (e.g. Sin/Cos, Square Root)

Nema: Use Cases

3D-GPU for Embedded ApplicationsMinimal Configurations of Nema offer sufficient performance in a uniquely small silicon footprintNema configurable architecture can scale to meet the graphic and other processing needs of any application

GP-GPU in Embedded Systems

Gain flexibility, area and power by running data and computational intensive tasks (e.g. video analytics, image processing, compression) on Nema

Nema: Why Consider?

Configurability: The only GPU that adapts to your requirements

Performance: More GFLOPs/sq.mm

Ultra-Low Power: Less silicon, frame buffer compression, advanced power management

Easy Software Development: Change the hardware, and keep the software untouched!

Ideal for GP-GPU: C/C++ Compiler and OpenCL API allows exploiting Nema power for video and image processing and other computational & data intensive tasks

DisplayPort Cores

Highly Featured Receiver and Transmitter Cores

DisplayPort 1.1a / 1.2a, including MST & HBR2Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) 1.3Primary and Secondary Aux Channel, Optional HDCP, Enhanced 3D Video TransportDeliverables include reference software driver and link policy maker

PHY IntegrationAlready integrated with FPGA and ASIC PHYsDevelopment team available to assist in the selection and integration of PHY

H.264 Video Encoder Cores

No-compromise design for maximum qualityMeasurably superior compressed video qualityEvaluate yourself with simulation models or platform board

Economical, efficient performanceFrom mobile screen QCIF to 4Kx4K framesCompresses full HD video

1080p at 30 fps in low-cost FPGAs, beyond 1080p at 60 fps in ASICs

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Main Profile Encoder: best quality videoBaseline Profile Encoder: smaller core, still great qualityBaseline, Main, or High Profile Decoder: fast & efficient

H.264 Encoder Cores, cont.

Easier system integration and application support

Streaming-capable interfaces (Avalon-ST, or AMBA options)Stand-alone operation (no processor required once running)Flexible external memory interface

Low-bandwidth, latency-tolerant, independent of memory type

Run-time tunable operationSwitch modes– Constant Bit Rate (CBR) to fit restricted bandwidth– Variable Bit Rate (VBR) to meet specified quality level– Intra-Only for still-image compression competitive with JPEG

2000Deblocking Filter when needed for even better image quality

Trouble-free technology mappingUp to Level 5.1 compliance with both CABAC and CAVLC coders


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Image Compression Cores Family

JPEG Encoder & Decoder; 8/12-bit extended JPEG Encoder & DecoderScalado SpeedView JPEG EncoderLossy compression

Cameras, image storage, etc.

LJPEG Encoder, DecoderLossless compression

Professional video, medical imaging

JPEG-LS EncoderLossless compression

The best lossless compression algorithm, from HP

JPEG 2000 EncoderLossy and Lossless compression

Military and aerospace systems,surveillance, medical imaging


JPEG IP Example


“CAST provided a robust JPEG solution that allowed Pixel Velocity to reduce its development time to get to market faster. CAST provided all the necessary tools to validate the solution in software accelerating the development process of Pixel Velocity personnel. The integration of the CAST JPEG core with the Pixel Velocity system was easy.

The CAST personnel was always available to offer support and answer

questions.”

— Josh Patterick:Lead Engineer while atPixel Velocity

The Pixel Video Fusion™ high-def security system has been installed at Chicago O'Hare International Airport and other locations.

JPEG 2000 EncoderFlexible: lossless and lossy compression

Images stored at multiple resolution levels

Ideal for surveillance: Thumbnails for quick scanningHigher-res images retrieved for detailed analysis

Encoder featuresProcessing: Tier-1 and Tier-2 (typically left to the user)

BIIF option for military imaging standard support

Region of Interest (ROI) option for selective quality

System performance trade-off parametersOutput Bit Rate Control

Number of Entropy Encoders

Full-image or tile processing


Video Over IP Subsystem


Combines H.264 High Profile Encoder with RTP and UDP/IP Hardware Stacks

Ultra-low latency: overall delay under 5ns

Flexible, with options for interfaces, memory, Ethernet or Wi-Fi integration, more

FPGA Reference Design Kits enable rapid development jumpstart

Customization services tailor it to your specific requirements

Video and Image Compression Application Platforms

Quick way to learn or evaluate H.264 or JPEG 2000 before you design

Solid starting point to reduce your system development time

Cooperative effort of CAST’s virtual organization:

CAST USA

CAST Czech Republic

Alma Technologies, Greece

S2C, China


PCIe Endpoint Controller Core

Critical featuresMultiple device link widths: 1X, 4X, and 8XPCI-SIG certified Low latency, minimal memory requirements, power managementTechnology independent: ASIC- and FPGA-provenFree PCIe simulation model download for pre-sales evaluation

Rigorously verifiedTested with Avery’s proven PCI-Xactor verification IPExtensive PHY and Mother Board interoperability testingWorks with any 16-bit PIPE-compliant PHY

Includes Unique Application Interface (AIF)Bridges Transaction Layer Protocol (TLP) and standard SoC busesRelieves designer from the TLP knowledge necessary with other cores

IP Products

VIDEO & IMAGE COMPRESSION

H.264/AVC: Baseline, Main & High Profile Encoders & Decoder

RTP Stack; Video Over IP Subsystem, Application Platform

JPEG 2000:Encoder, Platform

JPEG: Encoder, Decoder, Codec Scalado Speedtag 12/8-bit Extended Encoder & Decoder

Lossless: LJPEG Encoder, DecoderJPEG-LS Encoder

SECURITY & ENCRYPTION

AES programmable, GCMDES, 3DESMD5SHA-1, SHA-256

GRAPHICS & PERIPHERALS

Graphics Processors:Nema Multicore GPUSingle-Core GPU2D/2.5D Graphics Accelerator

Display Controllers:Multilayer LCD Display

NOR Flash Controllers:Serial & Parallel NOR Flash

Device Controllers:Smart Card Reader

Network Stacks:UDP/IP StackHardware RTP Stack

Data Link Controllers:SDLC & HDLC

AMBA Infrastructure Cores &

AHB 32-bit DMA

Legacy Peripherals:DMA ControllersUARTs, Timer/Counter

CONTROLLERS & PROCESSORS

32-bit BA2x FamilyApplication Processors

Full & BasicEmbedded Processors

Real-TimeDeeply

EmbeddedLow-Power

Dev & Debug Packages

8051 Compatibles: Super-Fast AdvancedFast MatureLegacy-Configurable


INTERCONNECTS

DisplayPort Transmitter, Receiver

Ethernet MAC

PCI Express X1/X4 & X8controllers, app interface

PCI Targets, Masters, Host Bridges & AHB interfaces

Serial: CAN, CAD FDI2C, LIN, SPI

Conclusion: Why Choose CAST?

Superior Processor, Compression, and Graphics Products

Controllers, Interfaces, and Functions to complete your SoC

Royalty-Free Licensing and 20 Years of IP Experience reduce your risks

Learn more:visit www.cast-inc.com or call +1 201.391.8300


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