HiCoVec - A Configurable Vectorprocessor as Open-Source hardware

The HiCoVec-Processor is a a configurable Mediaprocessor, which may be implemented using programmable hardware (FPGAs). It was designed and developed in our Computer Engineering Lab and is available as Open-Source hardware.

The adjacent picture shows the HiCoVec in action: SCOTCH-RACE, a simple car racing game, runs on a HiCoVec with 16 vector slices (with 32 bit each, thus a total of 512 bit), implemented in a Spartan-3A-FPGA.