Muhammad Rashid^*, Majid Alotaibi

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 6849-6865, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032849 - 28 December 2022

Abstract We have proposed a flexible coprocessor key-authentication architecture for 80/112-bit security-related applications over field by employing Elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman (ECDH) protocol. Towards flexibility, a serial input/output interface is used to load/produce secret, public, and shared keys sequentially. Moreover, to reduce the hardware resources and to achieve a reasonable time for cryptographic computations, we have proposed a finite field digit-serial multiplier architecture using combined shift and accumulate techniques. Furthermore, two finite-state-machine controllers are used to perform efficient control functionalities. The proposed coprocessor architecture over and is programmed using Verilog and then implemented on Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA More >

Mohammad B. Khan¹, Abdul R. Khan^2,*, Hasan Alkahtani²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 2333-2346, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020623 - 07 December 2021

Abstract Architectures based on the data flow computing model provide an alternative to the conventional Von-Neumann architecture that are widely used for general purpose computing. Processors based on the data flow architecture employ fine-grain data-driven parallelism. These architectures have the potential to exploit the inherent parallelism in compute intensive applications like signal processing, image and video processing and so on and can thus achieve faster throughputs and higher power efficiency. In this paper, several data flow computing architectures are explored, and their main architectural features are studied. Furthermore, a classification of the processors is presented based… More >