# Xilinx Open Hardware - Hardware-Software Co-design forLow-cost AI processing in SpaceProcessors
# Xilinx Open Hardware - Hardware-Software Co-design forLow-cost AI processing in SpaceProcessors
## Project description
This project started as part of my master course Processor Design, later it was extended as my master thesis. With this project I compete in the Xilinx Open Hardware competition in the student category. For the project I have modified the LEON3 space processor and have included a SIMD module with features targeting acceleration in artificail intelligence applications.
This project started as part of my master course Processor Design, later it was extended as my master thesis. With this project I compete in the Xilinx Open Hardware competition in the student category. For the project I have modified the LEON3 space processor and have included a SIMD module with features targeting acceleration in artificial intelligence applications.
The SIMD module, operates over the integer unit registers (SIMD within a register, aka SWAR) and has two stages. In the first stage both input operands are operated against each other at byte granularity, the result is passed to the second stage where reduction operations are implemented. Additionally a mask vector can restrict the bytes to be computed in the first stage and swizzling option is included.
