Domain-specific Design Space Exploration and Variant Selection Methods for High-Performance Cryptographic Engines
The IASTED International Conference on Circuits and Systems ~CS 2008~, August 18-20, 2008, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA
Abstract
We present an generator-based approach for efficient design space
exploration and high-level synthesis of cryptographic designs. It allows the directed search for new algorithmic
variants.
The approach combines high-level synthesis features like automated scheduling and allocation with
performance considerations down to the register-level which are
crucial for the performance of cryptographic designs.
We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach on an cryptographic algorithm based on elliptic curves.
Authors
Felix Madlener, and Sorin A. HussDownload
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