The following is the 2021.1 release notes.
- GZIP Multi Core Compression
- New GZIP Multi-Core Compress Streaming Accelerator which is a purely stream only solution (free running kernel); it comes with many variants of different block size support of 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, and 32 KB.
- Facebook ZSTD Compression Core
- New Facebook ZSTD Single Core Compression accelerator with block size 32 KB.
- Multi-cores ZSTD compression is in progress (for higher throughput).
- GZIP Low Latency Decompression
- A new version of GZIP decompress with improved latency for each block, lesser resources (35% lower LUT, 83% lower block RAM), and improved FMax.
- ZLIB Whole Application Acceleration using U50
- L3 GZIP solution for the Alveo U50 Platform, containing six Compression cores to saturate the full PCIe bandwidth. It is provided with an Efficient GZIP SW Solution to accelerate the CPU libz.so library which provides seamless inflate and deflate API level integration to end the customer software without recompiling.
- Versal Platform Support