An area-efficient bit-serial integer and GF(2n) multiplier

  • Authors:
  • Manfred Schimmler;Bertil Schmidt;Hans-Werner Lang;Sven Heithecker

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Christian-Albrecht-Universität Kiel, Herman-Rodewald-Strasse 3, 24118 Kiel, Germany;School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 63798, Singapore;Fachhochschule Flensburg, University of Applied Science, Kanzleistrasse 91-93, 24943 Flensburg, Germany;Institut für Datentechnik und Kommunikationsnetze, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Hans-Sommer-Strasse 66, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Microelectronic Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents the design of a new multiplier architecture for normal integer multiplication of positive and negative numbers as well as for multiplication in finite fields of order 2^n. It has been developed to increase the performance of algorithms for cryptographic and signal processing applications on implementations of the Instruction Systolic Array (ISA) parallel computer model [M. Kunde, H.W. Lang, M. Schimmler, H. Schmeck, H. Schroder, Parallel Computing 7 (1988) 25-39, H.W. Lang, Integration, the VLSI Journal 4 (1986) 65-74]. The multiplier operates least significant bit (LSB)-first for integer multiplication and most significant bit ( )-first for finite field multiplication. It is a modular bit-serial design, which on the one hand can be efficiently implemented in hardware and on the other hand has the advantage that it can handle operands of arbitrary length.