Vector Reduction Unit
Reduce four signed lanes to either their sum or maximum.
Task
When op_max is zero output the sum of all lanes; when high output the signed maximum.
Examples
- Implement the required behavior and preserve it under the stated control conditions.
Constraints
- Use synthesizable SystemVerilog unless this stage is verification-only.
Accelerator verification checklist
- Exercise zero, maximum positive and negative operands where signed data is used.
- Check exact bit growth and make overflow or saturation behavior intentional.
- Verify reset, enable, valid and pipeline alignment cycle by cycle.
- Send back-to-back data to confirm the advertised throughput.
Concepts to review
SIMD, reduction, tree
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Related problems
- Signed INT8 Multiply-Accumulate — Easy
- Four-Lane INT8 Dot Product — Medium
- Eight-Lane Reduction Adder — Medium
- ReLU with 8-bit Saturation — Medium
- Systolic Array Processing Element — Hard