The Fastest PCRE Compatible Regular Expression IP Core on Xilinx® Alveo™ Accelerator Card

INTRODUCTION

Fast analysis of unstructured textual data, such as system logs, network traffic, social media posts, emails, or news articles, is growing ever more important in technical and business data analytics applications. Nearly 85% of business data is in the form of unstructured textual logs. Rapidly extracting information from these text sources is critical for business decision making. GRegeX is an implementation of standard regular expression algorithm on FPGA…