MetaZip: a high-throughput and efficient accelerator for DEFLATE

Booming data volume has become an important challenge for data center storage and bandwidth resources. Consequently, fast and efficient compression architecture is becoming the most fundamental design in data centers. However, the compression ratio (CR) and compression throughput are often difficult to achieve at the same time on existing computing platforms. DEFLATE is a widely used compression format in data centers, which is an ideal case for hardware acceleration. Unfortunately, Deflate has an inherent connection among its special memory access pattern, which limits a higher throughput.