Research Article

Prime Field ECDSA Signature Processing for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems

Table 5

Performance of signature generation at 50 MHz.

Generationsecp224r1 secp256r1

Compute timeWorst case 5.56 7.26
(ms/Sig)Simulated5.457.15
ThroughputWorst case 180 138
(Sig/s)Simulated184140
LatencyWorst case 278.097362.881
(Cycles/Sig)Simulated272.345357.315