This document discusses the design of a pipelined architecture for sparse matrix-vector multiplication on an FPGA. It begins with introductions to matrices, linear algebra, and matrix multiplication. It then describes the objective of building a hardware processor to perform multiple arithmetic operations in parallel through pipelining. The document reviews literature on pipelined floating point units. It provides details on the proposed pipelined design for sparse matrix-vector multiplication, including storing vector values in on-chip memory and using multiple pipelines to complete results in parallel. Simulation results showing reduced power and execution time are presented before concluding the design can improve performance for scientific applications.