Streaming Integer Extensions for Snitch

The prosperity of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) imposes increasing demand on endpoint microcontroller-based devices' performance and energy efficiency. The MCUs are demanded to process the raw data acquired from the sensors with the integer-based workload, such as digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms and quantized neural network (QNN)...

Porting Linux to the rVEX reconfigurable VLIW softcore

This thesis describes the design and implementation of an FPGA-based hardware platform based on the rVEX VLIW softcore and the adaption of a Linux 2.0 no_mmu kernel to run on that platform. The rVEX is a runtime reconfigurable VLIW softcore processor. It supports various configurations that allow programs to run faster or more efficient. The...