MD5 Cryptographic Hash Function - Hardware and SoftwareThe main idea of this project is to implement a system where:The most complexity part is implemented on hardware (MD5 hash function)The interaction is implemented on softwareTo explore the complexity and to compare two approaches:We developer a script to implement MD5 in C and compare the performance of three approaches:All on softwareAll on hardwareMD5 on hardware and interaction on softwareThe implementation will be based on this paper: Hardware implementation of the MD5 algorithm.Structure of the project:MD5Demo: Hardware + Software approachhardware-md5: approach just on hardwaremd5.c : script in C of MD5ip_repo: IP Core to Hardware + Software approachsimulation: testbenchRequirementsVivado 2019.2VitisNexys4 Digilent Xilinx (FPGA)ImplementationOn Vivado was implemented a version just on hardware with an IP Core to MD5.Then, it was implemented a version with IP Core on hardware to implement MD5 and all the control on software. Input data came from software to hardware by DMA and all the process occurs on hardware. When the process finishes, the data produced on hardware is transmitted by AXI Memmory Mapped Interface to software to show the user.