Research Article

Dynamic Hardware Development

Table 5

Cryptographic module performance benchmarks in an Xilinx xc2vp30.

ModuleAreaSpeedThroughput
(slices/BRAMs)(MHz)(blocks/sec)

MD5 (Impulse C)1305/2660.43 ( )
MD5 (Verilog)613/0610.71 ( )
SHA-1 (Impulse C)1080/1730.17 ( )
SHA-1 (Verilog)1214/0760.46 ( )