SystemC-based hardware/software co-design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication
This paper presents the hardware-software co-design of an elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC) system-on-chip (SoC) implementation of a mutual authentication protocol for network/data communication systems. Designing such computationally intensive cryptosystems, particularly for resource-constrained e...
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| author | Hau, Y. W. Hani, Mohamed Khalil Marsono, Muhammad Nadzir |
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| description | This paper presents the hardware-software co-design of an elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC) system-on-chip (SoC) implementation of a mutual authentication protocol for network/data communication systems. Designing such computationally intensive cryptosystems, particularly for resource-constrained embedded applications using the conventional register transfer level (RTL) methodology leads to extended design cycles, inefficient design-space exploration, very long simulation cycles, tedious verification procedure, and sub-optimal final realization. The solution to this problem is to apply hardware-software co-simulation methods abstracted at the Electronic System Level (ESL). In the ESL modelling framework proposed in this paper, the Unified Modelling Language (UML) is used to create the design documents that describe the system static architecture and functional behaviour. SystemC is used in generating the cycle-accurate executable simulation models. A technique for design space exploration at the system level is also proposed to obtain the best hardware-software partitioning of the ECC SoC well before the final prototype is available. Experimental works with the proposed ESL co-design platform show that early system verification can be performed efficiently, and simulation speed of an ESL model is shown to be about 1000 times faster than the simulation of the equivalent RTL model. System execution time is estimated to be within 95% accuracy of its equivalent RTL. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-294252019-03-31T08:23:00Z http://eprints.utm.my/29425/ SystemC-based hardware/software co-design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication Hau, Y. W. Hani, Mohamed Khalil Marsono, Muhammad Nadzir TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This paper presents the hardware-software co-design of an elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC) system-on-chip (SoC) implementation of a mutual authentication protocol for network/data communication systems. Designing such computationally intensive cryptosystems, particularly for resource-constrained embedded applications using the conventional register transfer level (RTL) methodology leads to extended design cycles, inefficient design-space exploration, very long simulation cycles, tedious verification procedure, and sub-optimal final realization. The solution to this problem is to apply hardware-software co-simulation methods abstracted at the Electronic System Level (ESL). In the ESL modelling framework proposed in this paper, the Unified Modelling Language (UML) is used to create the design documents that describe the system static architecture and functional behaviour. SystemC is used in generating the cycle-accurate executable simulation models. A technique for design space exploration at the system level is also proposed to obtain the best hardware-software partitioning of the ECC SoC well before the final prototype is available. Experimental works with the proposed ESL co-design platform show that early system verification can be performed efficiently, and simulation speed of an ESL model is shown to be about 1000 times faster than the simulation of the equivalent RTL model. System execution time is estimated to be within 95% accuracy of its equivalent RTL. Universiti Malaya 2011 Article PeerReviewed Hau, Y. W. and Hani, Mohamed Khalil and Marsono, Muhammad Nadzir (2011) SystemC-based hardware/software co-design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, 24 (2). pp. 111-130. ISSN 0127-9084 https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJCS/article/view/6549 |
| spellingShingle | TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Hau, Y. W. Hani, Mohamed Khalil Marsono, Muhammad Nadzir SystemC-based hardware/software co-design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication |
| title | SystemC-based hardware/software co-design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication |
| title_full | SystemC-based hardware/software co-design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication |
| title_fullStr | SystemC-based hardware/software co-design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication |
| title_full_unstemmed | SystemC-based hardware/software co-design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication |
| title_short | SystemC-based hardware/software co-design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication |
| title_sort | systemc based hardware software co design of elliptic curve cryptographic system for network mutual authentication |
| topic | TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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