A 21.54 Gbits/s Fully Pipelined AES Processor on FPGA

  • Authors:
  • Alireza Hodjat;Ingrid Verbauwhede

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Los Angeles;University of California, Los Angeles

  • Venue:
  • FCCM '04 Proceedings of the 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper presents the architecture of a fully pipelined AES encryption processor on a single chip FPGA. By using loop unrolling and inner-round and outer-round pipelining techniques, a maximum throughput of 21.54 Gbits/s is achieved. A fast and area efficient composite field implementation of the byte substitution phase is designed using an optimum number of pipeline stages for FPGA implementation. A 21.54 Gbits/s throughput is achieved using 84 Block RAMs and 5177 Slices of a VirtexII-Pro FPGA with a latency of 31 cycles and throughput per area rate of 4.2 Mbps/Slice.