AHA Products Group announced today the introduction and immediate availability of two new GZIP Compression chips. The AHA3641 and AHA3642 ICs support GZIP, ZLIB, LZS, and Deflate. The chips provide expansion control, on-the-fly compressed data verification for high integrity storage systems, and excellent compression ratios while performing full duplex compression and decompression at 10 or 20 Gbps throughput, respectively. Both chips feature highly efficient DMA engines and on-chip PCI Express® Gen-2 x8 interfaces in a pin-compatible 21x21mm BGA package that enables an easy migration path between 10 and 20 Gbps solutions. Reference drivers are available free of charge for a variety of operating systems.

With an ever-increasing amount of data being generated every day, computing systems are facing throughput, latency, and storage challenges like never before. By providing the equivalent compression performance of several servers, the AHA3641 and AHA3642 high-speed compression integrated circuits (ICs) enable systems to store more data and transfer at faster rates. AHA continues to demonstrate its leadership position by delivering a GZIP hardware solution that can greatly increase throughput and energy efficiency while reducing CPU utilization and latency. These new ICs deliver a quick ROI through maximizing system performance with a low overall solution cost.

AHA compression solutions are used by tier 1 storage, WAN Optimization, Big Data, banking, and high frequency trading companies worldwide. AHA remains the preferred supplier for GZIP acceleration due to unmatched customer support directly from their development engineers.

“These new ICs are a great complement to our board offerings,” stated Jeff Hannon, AHA’s General Manager and Vice President of Engineering. “Their ease of integration and great pricing make them very attractive for high-volume customers, and the fact that they have the same performance and use the same device drivers as our AHA371 and AHA372 PCIe add-in cards allows for rapid evaluation and early prototyping.”

Availability

The AHA3641 and AHA3642 are released to production, and orders are now being accepted. These ICs can be evaluated on the newly released AHA371 and AHA372 GZIP Accelerator cards.

About AHA Products Group

For over 26 years AHA has been the global leader in Lossless Data Compression and Forward Error Correction and now supports crypto acceleration technologies. Based in Moscow, Idaho, the design center develops and markets ICs, PCBs, and IP Cores for commercial and government customers worldwide. AHA products are used in Network Transmission, WAN Optimization, Enterprise Storage, Satellite and Terrestrial Communications, and a wide variety of other systems where data throughput and integrity are vital. A recognized technology innovator, AHA has a reputation for exceptional product quality, reliability, outstanding customer service and is an AS9100 certified manufacturer. AHA Products Group is a division of Comtech EF Data Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL). For more information, please visit www.aha.com.