GZIP family of CebaIP Cores for Storage and Data Networking ASICs and FPGAs - Cebatech

CebaTech announced the availability of the GZIP family of CebaIP Cores. The GZIP family provides lossless, standards-based and comprehensive data compression for use in storage and data networking ASICs and FPGAs. GZIP family of IP cores can significantly reduce the operational costs of storing and transmitting data by end users of Integrated Circuits (ICs).

Chad Spackman, president of CebaTech, said:

With the exponential growth of stored data inside the enterprise, the desire to protect this data has never been greater…

The GZIP family of CebaIP cores with AES cryptography is the perfect blend of high speed hardware-based compression technology to reduce the operational costs of storing and transmitting data, and to secure this data from potential enterprise-wide threats…

Customers can choose from available GZIP configurations now, and grow with the platform over time to greater levels of integration and function, to meet the changing demands of their respective markets…

The GZIP family is based on CebaTech's integrated CebaIP Platform, which provides a modular approach to offering IP cores, enabling design engineers to quickly and easily integrate each configuration into their ASICs or FPGAs.

CebaIP Platform offers an integrated advanced direct memory access (DMA) controller with the OpenBSD driver. Using this feature designers will be able to rapidly achieve complete compression, decompression, and encryption offload solutions.

The GZIP family is standards-based and conforms to the popular deflate standard as specified in RFC1951. File formats for both ZLIB and GZIP, as specified in RFC1950 and 1952, are also supported. Data rates range from 2Gb/s and scale to 8Gb/s while typical compression ratios for benchmark files sets are in the range of 2.5:1 to 3.5:1.

The GZIP family also includes optional advanced encryption standard (AES) capability with select cipher modes for securing data at rest inside the enterprise. AES data rates range from 3Gb/s and scale to 12Gb/s. Supported cipher modes include ECB, CBC, GCM, and XTS with keys sizes of 128b, 192b, and 512b. (XTS is the latest recommendation by the IEEE in the P1619 standard for encryption of storage devices.)

GZIP-based compression and decompression is available now for customer engagements, with general availability of the AES function in mid-2007. Pricing for single use licenses start at $150,000.

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