An 830mW, 586kbps 1024-bit RSA chip design

  • Authors:
  • Chingwei Yeh;En-Feng Hsu;Kai-Wen Cheng;Jinn-Shyan Wang;Nai-Jen Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • Nat'l Chung-Cheng University;Nat'l Chung-Cheng University;Nat'l Chung-Cheng University;Nat'l Chung-Cheng University;Nat'l Chung-Cheng University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Designers' forum
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents an RSA hardware design that simultaneously achieves high-performance and low-power. A bit-oriented, split modular multiplication algorithm and architecture are proposed to fully exert the radix-4 computational capability. Further, we identify the switching profile of RSA data and accordingly propose power-optimized designs for the storage elements and key computational components. The complete RSA modular exponentiation hardware has been implemented using cell-based 0.18um CMOS technology. Post-layout simulation shows that the design delivers an average performance of 586kbps at 460MHz, 1.8V while consuming only 830mW.