NVMe expansion

Overview

The Flash MX IP Core implements a hardware accelerator for zstd compression and decompression. Compute-intensive software-based compression is offloaded from the host to the IP, delivering high compression performance at unmatched power efficiency.
 

Key Features

  • Turn key solution: compression, compaction, memory management
  • Transparent addressing to operating system and applications
  • Operates on page granularity to enable high compression performance

Benefits

  • Standards
    • Hardware accelerated zstd
    • Compression algorithm: zstd
    • Interface: AXI4, CHI
  • Architecture
    • Modular architecture, enables scalability to meet customer throughput requirements
    • Architectural configuration parameters accessible to fine tune performance

Deliverables

  • Performance evaluation license
  • C++ compression model for integration in customer performance simulation model
  • FPGA evaluation license
    • Encrypted IP delivery (Xilinx)
  • HDL Source Licenses
    • Synthesizable System Verilog RTL (encrypted)
    • Implementation constraints
    • UVM testbench (self-checking)
    • Vectors for testbench and expected results
    • User Documentation

Technical Specifications

Maturity
Tape-out
Availability
Immediate
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