340mV–1.1V, 289Gbps/W, 2090-gate NanoAES hardware accelerator with area-optimized encrypt/decrypt GF(24)2 polynomials in 22nm tri-gate CMOS

An on-die, lightweight nanoAES hardware accelerator is fabricated in 22nm tri-gate CMOS, targeted for ultra-low power mobile SOCs. Compared to conventional 128-bit AES implementations, this design uses an 8-bit Sbox datapath along with ShiftRow byte-order processing to compute all AES rounds in native GF(2⁴)² composite-field. This approach along with a serial-accumulating MixColumns circuit, area-optimized encrypt and decrypt Galois-field polynomials and integrated on-the-fly key generation circuit results in a compact 2090-gate design, enabling peak energy-efficiency of 289Gbps/W and AES-128 encrypt/decrypt throughput of 432/671Mbps with total energy consumption of 4.7/3nJ measured at 0.9V, 25°C.