Research Article

Prime Field ECDSA Signature Processing for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems

Table 2

Hardware execution of point doubling.

Step unit No. of cycles

(1) Mult
(2) Add 1
(3) Add 1
(4) Add 1
(5) Add 1
(6) ; div; add max.
(7) Mult
(8) Sub 1
(9) Sub 1
(10) Mult
(11) Sub 1

max.