In this work, we present hardware and software implementations of flexible
polar systematic encoders and decoders. The proposed implementations operate on
polar codes of any length less than a maximum and of any rate. We describe the
low-complexity, highly parallel, and flexible systematic-encoding algorithm
that we use and prove its correctness. Our hardware implementation results show
that the overhead of adding code rate and length flexibility is little, and the
impact on operation latency minor compared to code-specific versions. Finally,
the flexible software encoder and decoder implementations are also shown to be
able to maintain high throughput and low latency.