SafeXcel IP - Public Key Accelerators

Designed for full scalability and an optimal performance over gate count ratio, SafeXcel IP Public Key Accelerators address the unique needs of semiconductor OEMs and provide a reliable and cost-effective IP solution that is easy to integrate into SoC designs. The SafeXcel IP Public-Key Accelerators can be deployed in semiconductors that are used for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Secure Real Time Protocol (sRTP) and MACsec protocol implementations, such as handheld devices, gateways, and certificate authority servers.

Benefits

• Silicon-proven
• Flexible configurations
• ROM-based sequencer facilitates functional upgrades
• Fast and easy to integrate
• World-class support

Features

• Support of RSA, RSA-CRT, DSA, DH and ECC
• Highly scalable architecture with selectable number of Processing Elements
• Standard modulus size: up to 4096 bits
• Resistant against power and timing analysis attacks
• Fully synchronous design

Deliverables

• Synthesizable Verilog RTL source code
• Self-checking RTL test bench, including test vectors and expected result vectors
• Simulation script
• Synthesis script
• User's Manual with technical specifications, including programmer's interface
• Developer's Manual with step-by-step descriptions that allows developers to easily install, verify, and synthesize the design

SafeXcel IP Public Key Accelerators configurations

NAME	CONFIGURATION	MAX CLOCK FREQUENCY1	RSA-1024 PERFORMANCE		APPROXIMATE GATE COUNT AT SYNTHESIS FREQUENCY EQUAL TO 75% OF THE MAX. CLOCK FREQUENCY
			NUMBER OF CYCLES	AT MAX CLOCK FRENQUENCY
EIP-28b	32-bit PKCP only	240 MHz	3,919,118	16.4 msec	32 kGates
EIP-28-PE-4	16-bit PKCP + LNME (4 PEs)	250 MHz	1,559,831	6.3 msec	60 kGates
EIP-28-PE-17	16-bit PKCP + LNME (17 PEs)	230 MHz	395,130	1.72 msec	146 kGates
EIP-28-PE-33	16-bit PKCP + LNME (33 PEs)	230 MHz	218,220	0.95 msec	254 kGates