Research Article

A Compact FPGA-Based Accelerator for Curve-Based Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 1

Hardware approaches for multipliers.

Ref.FieldTargetAlgorithmApproachSlicesTime (ns)

[24]Spartan 3MSEDigit-serial345858.0
[24]Spartan 3LSEDigit-serial350462.0
[24]Spartan 3MSEDigit-serial5406153.0
[28]Virtex 6Schoolbook methodDigit-serial1643 (LUTs)802.4
[32] (dā€‰=1)Virtex 5LSEDigit-serial714 (LUTs)415.0
[32] (dā€‰=16)Virtex 5LSEDigit-serial2351 (LUTs)35.0
[34]Spartan 3MSEDigit-digit406219.0
[33]Virtex IIM-I algorithmSystolic array1399