Integrate CAST’s compressed intellectual property (IP) with Achronix’s eFPGA technology in a high-performance, low-power solution to support the movement and storage of big data

Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, a leading provider of field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based hardware accelerators and embedded FPGAs (eFPGA), today announced that it is focused on providing semi-conductor IP knowledge for semiconductor system designers. The property company CAST Incorporated has entered into a partnership; CAST’s high performance lossless compression IP has been implanted to support Achronix’s FPGA portfolio for efficient processing of data transfer between the data center and the mobile edge. SAA7356HL

CAST provides standard hardware implementations for lossless compression tools such as Deflate, GZIP, and ZLIB that are compatible with software implementations for compression or decompression. The hardware implementation provided by the ZipAccel core provides high throughput up to 100Gbps with very high compression performance and low latency. Coupling it with Achronix’s Speedcore eFPGA technology enables a high-performance, low-power solution that can more easily move and store large data.

With the explosion of applications with analytics, more and more information is being transmitted through bandwidth-limited communication channels that are widely used in many scenarios from automotive systems to large financial institutions. The cost and power consumption of transmitting data is becoming more and more important. The compression function implemented using Achronix eFPGA can minimize power consumption and maximize network capacity. In a custom SoC, the combination of CAST Compression IP and Speedcore eFPGA IP can effectively increase the achievable throughput; in addition, developers can use eFPGA to quickly and efficiently implement data processing algorithms. FTLX8571D3BCL

In order to meet the system’s specific throughput, storage, and latency requirements, the ability to optimize compression algorithms in eFPGA will make this solution an alternative technology for hundreds of application scenarios. This not only increases throughput, but also allows significant savings in expensive memory storage space.

“We are very excited to work with CAST to further enrich Achronix’s partner program,” said Mike Fitton, senior director of product planning and business development at Achronix. “The ability to instantiate CAST’s high-throughput compression core in our eFPGA will support ASICs and SoCs with Speedcore to effectively meet the data services market. Thanks to eFPGA IP as a repeatable workload for specific workloads. Programmed hardware accelerators, which enable new algorithms including compression and data parsing, to be quickly implemented. The high performance of the Speedcore eFPGA coupled with its large market traction make it an ideal choice for this type of application.”

“CAST is pleased to license the core to Achronix’s customers who will benefit from Achronix’s unique architecture, which will provide new algorithms with a high degree of flexibility and timeless capabilities, and enable rapid time-to-market,” CEO of CAST Ltd. Nikos D. Zervas commented. “By saving time for our customers who require these features in Achronix FPGAs and eFPGAs by providing proven IP solutions for the Achronix FPGA toolchain and architecture, the IP has been further optimized to take full advantage of Achronix’s FPGAs. Architecture to accelerate and reduce chip area.”