The embedded systems are increasingly becoming a key technological component of all kinds of complex tech-nical systems and an exhaustive analysis of the state of the art of all current performance with respect to architectures, design methodologies, test and applications could be very in-teresting. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), based on the well-known algorithm Rijndael, is designed to be easily implemented in hardware and software platforms. General purpose computing on graphics processing unit (GPGPU) is an alternative to recongurable accelerators based on FPGA devices. This paper presents a direct comparison between FPGA and GPU used as accelerators for the AES cipher. The results achieved on both platforms and their analysis has been compared to several others in order to establish which device is best at playing the role of hardware accel-erator by each solution showing interesting considerations in terms of throughput, speedup factor, and resource usage. This analysis suggests that, while hardware design on FPGA remains the natural choice for consumer-product design, GPUS are nowadays the preferable choice for PC based ac-celerators, especially when the processing routines are highly parallelizable.

Conti, V., Vitabile, S. (2017). Design exploration of aes accelerators on FPGAS and GPUs. JOURNAL OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2017(1), 28-38.

Design exploration of aes accelerators on FPGAS and GPUs

CONTI, Vincenzo;VITABILE, Salvatore
2017-01-01

Abstract

The embedded systems are increasingly becoming a key technological component of all kinds of complex tech-nical systems and an exhaustive analysis of the state of the art of all current performance with respect to architectures, design methodologies, test and applications could be very in-teresting. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), based on the well-known algorithm Rijndael, is designed to be easily implemented in hardware and software platforms. General purpose computing on graphics processing unit (GPGPU) is an alternative to recongurable accelerators based on FPGA devices. This paper presents a direct comparison between FPGA and GPU used as accelerators for the AES cipher. The results achieved on both platforms and their analysis has been compared to several others in order to establish which device is best at playing the role of hardware accel-erator by each solution showing interesting considerations in terms of throughput, speedup factor, and resource usage. This analysis suggests that, while hardware design on FPGA remains the natural choice for consumer-product design, GPUS are nowadays the preferable choice for PC based ac-celerators, especially when the processing routines are highly parallelizable.
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Conti, V., Vitabile, S. (2017). Design exploration of aes accelerators on FPGAS and GPUs. JOURNAL OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2017(1), 28-38.
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