A Novel Parallel Architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptography Based on Modified Programmable Cellular Automata

An elliptic curve cryptography co-processor using the Modified Programmable Cellular Automata (MPCA) is proposed, which can perform the scalar multiplication over the GF (22). The novel elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) co-processor is parallel and polynomial basic with high throughput, better efficiency and less memory area. The proposed architecture can perform the doubling operation maximum of 187 MHz frequency and occupy 418 slices, and addition operation is performed maximum of 185 MHz and occupies 163 slices. With projective coordinate, the co-processor is implemented using very- high-speed integrated circuits hardware description language (VHDL) and simulated using OrCAD simulator.