Demos

Demo examples for lz4, snappy, lz4_streaming, zlib and gzip kernels are available in the L2/demos/ directory.

List of Demos

• Xilinx GZip Compression and Decompression
• Xilinx LZ4 Compression and Decompression
• Xilinx LZ4-Streaming Compression and Decompression
• Xilinx Snappy Compression and Decompression
• Xilinx Snappy-Streaming Compression and Decompression
• Xilinx ZLIB Compression and Decompression

Execute the following commands before building any of the examples:

$ source <Vitis_Installed_Path>/installs/lin64/Vitis/2019.2/settings64.sh
$ source <Vitis_Installed_Path>/xbb/xrt/packages/setup.sh

Build Instructions

Execute the following commands to compile and test run this example:

$ make run TARGET=sw_emu

Variable TARGET can take the following values:

• sw_emu : software emulation
• hw_emu : hardware emulation
• hw : run on actual hardware

By default, the target device is set as Alveo U200. In order to target a different device, use the DEVICE argument. For example:

make run TARGET=sw_emu DEVICE=<new_device.xpfm>

Build instructions explained in this section are common for all the applications. The generated executable names may differ.