HEARTBEAT

A 4x4 INT Systolic Architecture Based Accelerator for Efficient Matrix Multiplication

This repository includes custom RTL and testbenches implementation in systemverilog for HEARTBEAT; an integer based 4 by 4 matrix multiplication accelerator using Systolic Array Architecture built from scratch.

Directory Structure:

├── docs
├── benchmark.c
├── Makefile
├── mkdocs.yml
├── README.md
├── rtl
│   ├── controlled_counter.sv
│   ├── counter.sv
│   ├── data_feeder.sv
│   ├── input_datapath.sv
│   ├── mac_unit.sv
│   ├── output_datapath.sv
│   ├── pe.sv
│   ├── Readme.md
│   ├── reg_def.sv
│   ├── rv_protocol.sv
│   └── systolic.sv
├── testbench
│   ├── counter_tb.sv
│   ├── data_feeder_tb.sv
│   ├── input_datapath_tb.sv
│   ├── mac_unit_tb.sv
│   ├── output_datapath_tb.sv
│   ├── pe_tb.sv
│   ├── rv_protocol_tb.sv
│   ├── systolic_tb.sv
│   └── systolic_top_tb.sv
├── LICENSE
├── .readthedocs.yaml
├── .gitignore

How to Run:

Steps 1:

Clone the repository:

Type the below command:

git clone git@github.com:meds-ee-uet/systolic-MAC.git

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Step 2:

Install All the Required Pre-requisites:

1. Modelsim / Questasim
2. GTK-Wave
3. install make
4. gcc --> for benchmark

Step 3:

Using Makefile :

You can see the simulations in GTK-Wave using the Makefile. You have to write following command :

make TOP=module_name all

Or you can alternatively use Modelsim or Questasim as well !

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BenchMark:

Processor	Time (ns) (avg from 6 runs)
M1	1000
i7-1185G7	1239
i7-1355U	715
i5-10310U	1784
i5-6300U	2455
i7-8665U	1792
Systolic @ 3GHz	~15 (from simulation)

Hence we observe that the systolic array is approximately 50-160 times faster than main-stream general purpose cpus.

Documentation :

Click here to see the detailed Documentation:

📖 Documentation

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