Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Designers? Forum (DATE'04)
The Design of a High Speed ASIC Unit for the Hash Function SHA-256 (384, 512)
Paris, France
February 16-February 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2085-5
After recalling the basic algorithms published by NIST for implementing the hash functions SHA-256 (384, 512), a basic circuit characterized by a cascade of full adder arrays is given. Implementation options are discussed and two methods for improving speed are exposed: the delay balancing and the pipelining. An application of the former is first given, obtaining a circuit that reduces the length of the critical path by a full adder array. A pipelined version is then given, obtaining a reduction of two full adder arrays in the critical path. The two methods are afterwards combined and the results obtained through hardware synthesis are exposed, where a comparison between the new circuits is also given.
Citation:
Luigi Dadda, Marco Macchetti, Jeff Owen, "The Design of a High Speed ASIC Unit for the Hash Function SHA-256 (384, 512)," date, vol. 3, pp.30070, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Designers? Forum (DATE'04), 2004