Performance Evaluation of ECC in Single and Multi Processor Architectures on FPGA Based Embedded System

摘要

Cryptographic algorithms are computationally costly and the challenge is moreif we need to execute them in resource constrained embedded systems. FieldProgrammable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) having programmable logic de- vices andprocessing cores, have proven to be highly feasible implementation platformsfor embedded systems providing lesser design time and reconfig- urability.Design parameters like throughput, resource utilization and power requirementsare the key issues. The popular Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), which issuperior over other public-key crypto-systems like RSA in many ways, such asproviding greater security for a smaller key size, is cho- sen in this work andthe possibilities of its implementation in FPGA based embedded systems for bothsingle and dual processor core architectures in- volving task parallelizationhave been explored. This exploration, which is first of its kind consideringthe other existing works, is a needed activity for evaluating the best possiblearchitectural environment for ECC implementa- tion on FPGA (Virtex4 XC4VFX12,FF668, -10) based embedded platform.