Does SDK 16.1 support host channel, as described in Host Pipelined Multithread?

Starting in 17.0 you can emulate host channels with named pipes if your BSP has support for IO channels. Reading from and writing to an IO channel in 17.0+ creates a file with the binary data during runtime which can then be replaced with a named pipe if you want to emulate the communication from one fpga to another using IO channels. In the actual IO channel use (without emulation), you must use the IO channel named specified by the BSP. Otherwise, I have not seen the use of host channels outside of emulation, plus the support for this feature currently seems limited.