Cebatech Announces GZIP Family of CebaIP Cores(TM) for Efficient High Speed Compression and Decompression inside Data and Storage Networking ASICs and FPGAs.Easy-to-Integrate Cores Provide New Levels of Integration and Performance for Hardware Compression and Decompression EATONTOWN, N.J. -- CebaTech Inc., an innovative intellectual property (IP) developer using state of the art in-house electronic system level (ESL (1) An earlier family of client/server development tools for Windows and OS/2 from Ardent Software (formerly VMARK). It was originally developed by Easel Corporation, which was acquired by VMARK. ) development tools, today announced the availability of the GZIP (GNU ZIP) A popular compression program in the Unix world that has also been ported to DOS/Windows and the Mac. Providing greater compression than the Unix compress command, gzip generates files with a .gz extension. family of CebaIP Cores[TM]. The GZIP family provides comprehensive, standards-based, lossless data compression Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. This can be contrasted to lossy data compression, which does not allow the exact original data to be reconstructed from the for use in storage and data networking ASICs and FPGAs. Integrating the GZIP family of IP cores onto storage and data networking integrated circuits (ICs) can greatly reduce the operational costs of storing and transmitting data by end users of these ICs. Designers can choose from a number of available configurations to meet their desired speed, compression efficiency, and area requirements. The GZIP family of cores is based on CebaTech's integrated CebaIP Platform(TM) (see http://www.cebatech.com/media/CebaIP_Platform_Press_Release.pdf). The CebaIP platform provides a modular approach to offering IP cores, enabling design engineers to quickly and easily integrate each configuration into their ASICs or FPGAs. Using the CebaIP Platform's integrated advanced direct memory access (DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. ) controller with the OpenBSD software driver, designers are 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 RFC (Request For Comments) A document that describes the specifications for a recommended technology. Although the word "request" is in the title, if the specification is ratified, it becomes a standards document. 1951. File formats for both ZLIB (Z LIBrary) A set of compression/decompression routines written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler that is widely used in Linux and Unix operating systems. Zlib is open source and royalty-free software, and unlike the LZW compression algorithm, zlib does not increase the file size. 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 (cryptography, algorithm) Advanced Encryption Standard - (AES) The NIST's replacement for the Data Encryption Standard (DES). The Rijndael /rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was chosen by a NIST contest to be AES. (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 See electronic code book. , CBC (1) (Cell Broadcast Center) See cell broadcast. (2) (Cipher Block Chaining) In cryptography, a mode of operation that combines the ciphertext of one block with the plaintext of the next block. , GCM, and XTS with keys sizes of 128b, 192b, and 512b. (XTS is the latest recommendation by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. in the P1619 standard for encryption of storage devices.) "With the exponential growth of stored data inside the enterprise, the desire to protect this data has never been greater," said Chad Spackman, president of CebaTech. "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." CebaTech expects the GZIP family to be attractive to companies building embedded networking and storage processors for a wide array of appliances, disk controllers, and storage backup systems. The GZIP family is the first offering of CebaIP core configurations based on CebaTech's CebaIP Platform. "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," said Spackman. Pricing and Availability 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. Future configurations of the CebaIP Platform that include partial TPC/IP, VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network , link aggregation, and large send offload (LSO) will be released later in 2007. About CebaTech CebaTech uses its innovative C2R Compiler[TM], along with a comprehensive silicon development methodology, to realize complex data and storage networking functions in easy-to-integrate intellectual property (IP) cores. CebaTech is privately held. For more information about the company, CebaTech's GZIP family of CebaIP Cores and the CebaIP Platform, visit www.cebatech.com. CebaIP, CebaIP Platform, and CebaIP Cores are trademarks of CebaTech Inc. |
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