Due to the fact that the register files seriously affect the performance and area of coarse-grained reconfigurable cryptographic processors, an efficient structure of the distributed cross-domain register file is prop...Due to the fact that the register files seriously affect the performance and area of coarse-grained reconfigurable cryptographic processors, an efficient structure of the distributed cross-domain register file is proposed to realize a cryptographic processor with a high performance and a lowarea cost. In order to meet the demands of high performance and high flexibility at a lowarea cost, a union structure with the multi-ports access structure, i, e., a distributed crossdomain register file, is designed by analyzing the algorithm features of different ciphers. Considering different algorithm requirements of the global register files and local register files,the circuit design is realized by adopting different design parameters under TSMC( Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) 40 nm CMOS( complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology and compared with other similar works. The experimental results showthat the proposed distributed cross-domain register structure can effectively improve the performance of the unit area, of which the total performance of block per cycle is improved by17. 79% and performance of block per cycle per area is improved by 117%.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61176024)
文摘Due to the fact that the register files seriously affect the performance and area of coarse-grained reconfigurable cryptographic processors, an efficient structure of the distributed cross-domain register file is proposed to realize a cryptographic processor with a high performance and a lowarea cost. In order to meet the demands of high performance and high flexibility at a lowarea cost, a union structure with the multi-ports access structure, i, e., a distributed crossdomain register file, is designed by analyzing the algorithm features of different ciphers. Considering different algorithm requirements of the global register files and local register files,the circuit design is realized by adopting different design parameters under TSMC( Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) 40 nm CMOS( complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology and compared with other similar works. The experimental results showthat the proposed distributed cross-domain register structure can effectively improve the performance of the unit area, of which the total performance of block per cycle is improved by17. 79% and performance of block per cycle per area is improved by 117%.