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    Author(s)
    Display Name
    Kai Li
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Tianjin University
    Display Name
    Wei Yin
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Tianjin University
    Display Name
    Qiang Liu
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Tianjin University
    Abstract

    This paper presents a portable coprocessor to accelerate digital signal processing (DSP) applications for low power Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The DSP coprocessor is based on RISC-V packed-SIMD instructions, and can be tightly integrated with various RISC-V cores as an independent IP by using an extension interface. The DSP coprocessor is verified on a Nexys A7 FPGA. The experimental results demonstrate that the clock cycles of hamming codes, fast Fourier transforms (FFT) and digital filters running on the DSP coprocessor integrated with RISC-V cores are significantly reduced by up to 79.03%, 49.57% and 61.58%, respectively, compared to original RISC-V cores.