Conversion driven design of binary to mixed radix circuits

Author

Rafiev, Ashur ; Murphy, Julian P. ; Sokolov, Danil ; Yakovlev, Alex

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr., Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

410

Lastpage

415

Abstract

A conversion driven design approach is described. It takes the outputs of mature and time-proven EDA synthesis tools to generate mixed radix datapath circuits in an endeavour to investigate the added relative advantages or disadvantages. An algorithm underpinning the approach is presented and formally described together with m-of-n encoded gate-level implementations. The application is found in a wide variety and overlapping areas of circuit design, here a subset are analysed where the method finds the strongest application: arithmetic circuits and hardware security. The obtained results are reported showing an increase in power consumption but with considerable improvement in resistance to differential power analysis (DPA).

Keywords

combinational circuits; digital arithmetic; encoding; logic design; logic gates; EDA synthesis tool; arithmetic circuit; binary-to-mixed radix datapath circuit design; combinational logic circuit; conversion-driven design approach; differential power analysis; hardware security; m-of-n encoded gate-level implementation; power consumption; Arithmetic; Circuit synthesis; Data security; Design engineering; Electronic design automation and methodology; Encoding; Energy consumption; Network-on-a-chip; Protocols; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design, 2008. ICCD 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lake Tahoe, CA

ISSN

1063-6404

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2657-7

Electronic_ISBN

1063-6404

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.2008.4751893

Filename

4751893