
8201, 8202, 8203, 8204 Acceleration Processor Data Sheet, DS-0157-05
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Preface
Welcome to the Data Sheet for Exar’s 8201, 8202, 8203, 8204 (820x), a high performance,
low power, compression/encryption/hash acceleration processor. This document describes
the 820x operation, data structures, data flow and specifications.
Please refer to the 8201, 8202, 8203, 8204 Errata for release specific errata for the 820x
device.
Audience
This document is intended for:
Project managers
System engineers
Hardware and software development engineers
Marketing and product managers
Prerequisite
Before proceeding, you should generally understand:
PCI Express
GZIP/Deflate, eLZS and AES algorithms
Hash, MAC algorithms
General networking concepts
Document Organization
This document is organized as follows:
registers.