Research and implementation of micro-architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptography processor

Abstract

With the characteristics of computing compression, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) can be exploited parallel processing function by adopting VLIW architecture. Based on VLIW, the micro-architecture composition, pipeline structure and clustered architecture of ECC processor have been researched, and a microarchitecture design method for ECC processor has been presented. Using FPGA and under 0.18µm CMOS technology, a prototype has also been implemented. The results prove that the proposed micro-architecture for ECC processor can not only guarantee high flexibility for arbitrary ECC algorithms, but also achieve high performance.