CebaTech adds multi-stream GZIP and GUNZIP protocol for data networking apps

EATONTOWN, USA: CebaTech Inc., an innovative developer of advanced FPGA embedded system solutions, CebaFlex, has announced the expansion of its CebaRIP library of rapidly tunable silicon intellectual property (IP) cores with new, multi-stream versions of its GZIP compression and GUNZIP decompression IP targeted specifically at data networking applications.

The new cores are the first GZIP and GUNZIP IP cores to execute hundreds of thousands of data streams concurrently without performance degradation, in contrast to conventional cores that – at best – execute only a few data streams simultaneously before performance degrades. The new cores eliminate the need for multiple conventional IP cores or multiple, parallel software programmable processors.

"We developed these high throughput multi-stream cores in response to requests from customers who are building next generation data networking equipment that must handle the delivery of significantly more data to more end users than ever before," said Ramana Jampala, CEO of CebaTech.

"They wanted to steer clear of the design complexity and bill of materials (BOM) burden of deploying large numbers of single-stream cores and/or programmable processors. There are simply no other commercially-available GZIP-compliant IP solutions that can do this."

The new multi-stream IP cores achieve line-rate performance with an order of magnitude improvement in processing latency, and without compromising the compression ratio. They can also be aggregated to achieve even higher throughput. The cores integrate readily into system-on-chip (SoC), ASIC and FPGA designs and into CebaTech's CebaFlex series of FPGA-based subsystem boards, boosting protocol processing performance by offloading the execution of compute-intensive protocols from the system's central processing units (CPU).