AT/sup 2/-Optimal Galois Field Multiplier for VLSI

  • Authors:
  • Martin Fürber;Kurt Mehlhorn

  • Affiliations:
  • The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park;Univ. of Saarland, Saarbru¨cken,W. Germany

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

VLSI designs for Galois field multipliers, which are central in many encoding and decoding procedures for error-detecting and error-correcting codes, are presented. An AT/sup 2/-optimal Galois-field multiplier based on AT/sup 2/-optimal integer multipliers for a synchronous VLSI model is exhibited. Galois field multiplication is done in two steps. First two polynomials (of degree n-1) over Z/sub p/ are multiplied, and then the resulting polynomial is reduced modulo a fixed irreducible polynomial (of degree n). Multiplication of polynomials is done by discrete Fourier transform (DFT). For p=2, the procedure is more involved for Z/sub p/(x) than for Z(x). An extension to the case of variable p is included and some open problems are stated.