Xilinx Zlib Streaming 16KB Compression¶

Zlib example resides in L2/tests/zlibc_16KB directory.

Follow build instructions to generate host executable and binary.

The binary host file generated is named as “xil_zlib” and it is present in ./build directory.

Executable Usage¶

To execute single file for compression : ./build/xil_zlib -xbin ./build/xclbin_<xsa_name>_<TARGET mode>/compress.xclbin -c <file_name> -zlib 1
To execute multiple files for compression : ./build/xil_zlib -xbin ./build/xclbin_<xsa_name>_<TARGET mode>/compress.xclbin -cfl <files.list> -zlib 1
- <files.list>: Contains various file names with current path

The usage of the generated executable is as follows:

Usage: application.exe -[-h-c-l-xbin-B]
       --help,           -h      Print Help Options
       --xclbin,         -xbin   XCLBIN                                               Default: [compress]
       --compress,       -c      Compress
       --file_list,      -cfl    Compress List of Input Files
       --max_cr,         -mcr    Maximum CR
       --device_id,      -id     Device ID                                       Default: [0]
       --zlib,           -zlib   [0:GZip, 1:Zlib]                                Default: [0]

Results¶

Resource Utilization¶

Table below presents resource utilization of Xilinx Zlib Compress/Decompress kernels. The final Fmax achieved is 300MHz.

Flow	LUT	LUTMem	REG	BRAM	URAM
Compress	58K	8.7K	52.9K	160	48

Performance Data¶

Table below presents kernel throughput achieved for a single compute unit.

Topic	Results
Compression Throughput	2 GB/s
Average Compression Ratio	2.62x (Silesia Benchmark)

Standard GZip Support¶

This application is compatible with standard Gzip/Zlib application (compress/decompress).