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Ultra-Compact Advanced Encryption Standard (AES, FIPS-197) Core
The AES core implements Rijndael cipher encoding and decoding in compliance with the NIST Advanced Encryption Standard. It processes 128-bit data blocks with 128-bit key (a 256-bit key version is available).
Basic core is designed only for encryption and is the smallest available on the market (less than 3,000 gates). Enhanced versions are available that support encryption and decryption for various NIST cipher modes (ECB,CBC, OFB, CFB, CTR), as well as different datapath widths for size/performance tradeoff. The core includes the key expansion logic.
The design is fully synchronous and available in both source and netlist form.
Optional data integrity and differential power attack resistance features.
Basic core is designed only for encryption and is the smallest available on the market (less than 3,000 gates). Enhanced versions are available that support encryption and decryption for various NIST cipher modes (ECB,CBC, OFB, CFB, CTR), as well as different datapath widths for size/performance tradeoff. The core includes the key expansion logic.
The design is fully synchronous and available in both source and netlist form.
Optional data integrity and differential power attack resistance features.
Features
- Encrypts using the AES Rijndael Block Cipher Algorithm.
- Satisfies Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 197 from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). FIPS-197 validated (AESAVS).
- Processes 128-bit data blocks with 8, 16 or 32-bit data interface
- Employs key sizes of 128 bits (AES128), 192, or 256 bits (AES256)
- Includes the key expansion function
- Optional parity check feature for data integrity
- Optional additive data masking throughout the core (including the Sbox additive masking) for strong differential power attack (DPA) resistance
- Optional cycle hiding for DPA resistance
- Simple, fully synchronous, reusable design
- Completely self-contained: does not require external memory
- Available as fully functional and synthesizable Verilog or VHDL, or as a netlist for popular programmable devices and ASIC libraries
- Deliverables include self-checking test benches
Benefits
- Extremely compact design (less than 3K gates for TSMC 0.18 process)
Deliverables
- HDL Source Licenses
- Synthesizable Verilog RTL source code
- Testbench (self-checking)
- Test vectors
- Expected results
- Simulation script
- Synthesis script
- User Documentation
Applications
- Cipher for wireless communications, including IEEE 802.11i (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.15.3, IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee), MBOA (WiMedia), 802.16e, Wibree, sensor networks ("smart dust"), motes
- Electronic financial transactions
- Power line networks
- Digital Rights Management (DRM) including Digital Cinema System Specification (DCSS) and High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP 2.0)
- Secure video surveillance systems
- Encrypted data storage
- Secure RFID, immobilizers
- Secure Smart Cards
- ITU H.235
- Secure RTP (SRTP, RFC 3711)
Block Diagram of the Ultra-Compact Advanced Encryption Standard (AES, FIPS-197) Core
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