Finite Field Multiplier Using Redundant Representation

  • Authors:
  • Huapeng Wu;M. Anwar Hasan;Ian F. Blake;Shuhong Gao

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This article presents simple and highly regular architectures for finite field multipliers using a redundant representation. The basic idea is to embed a finite field into a cyclotomic ring which has a basis with the elegant multiplicative structure of a cyclic group. One important feature of our architectures is that they provide area-time trade-offs which enable us to implement the multipliers in a partial-parallel/hybrid fashion. This hybrid architecture has great significance in its VLSI implementation in very large fields. The squaring operation using the redundant representation is simply a permutation of the coordinates. It is shown that, when there is an optimal normal basis, the proposed bit-serial and hybrid multiplier architectures have very low space complexity. Constant multiplication is also considered and is shown to have an advantage in using the redundant representation.