Novel Radix Finite Field Multiplier for GF(2^m)

  • Authors:
  • M. C. Mekhallalati;A. S. Ashur;M. K. Ibrahim

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K.;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K.;Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

In this paper, a new {\it High-Radix} Finite Field multiplicationalgorithm for GF(2^m) is proposed for the first time. The proposedmultiplication algorithm can operate in a Digit-serial fashion, andhence can give a trade-off between the {\it speed}, the{\it area}, the input/outputpin limitation, and the low power consumption by simply {\it varying} the digit size. A detailed example of a new Radix-16GF(2^m) Digit-Serial multiplication architectureadopting the proposed algorithm illustrates a speed improvement of75% when compared to conventional Radix-2 bit-serial realization.This is made more significant when it is noted that the speedimprovement of 75% was achieved at the expense of only 2.3 timesincrease in the hardware requirements of the proposed architecture.