In recent years, the elliptic curve cryptosystems (ECC) have received attention
due to their increased security with smaller key size which brings the advantage of less
storage area and less bandwidth. Elliptic curve cryptography provides a methodology
for obtaining high-speed, efficient, and scalable implementations of network security
protocols. In addition...
With increasing operating frequencies in CMOS RF/microwave integrated circuits,
the performance of on-chip interconnects is becoming significantly affected by the lossy
substrate. It is the purpose of the first part of this thesis to develop a rigorous field
theoretic analysis approach for efficient characterization of single and multiple coupled
interconnects...
Current superscalar microprocessors' performance depends on its frequency and the
number of useful instructions that can be processed per cycle (IPC). Higher frequency
is achieved with process advancement, new circuit techniques, and microarchitectural
improvement. Number of instructions processed per cycle depends mainly on
microarchitecture techniques that exploit parallelism both spatially...
The objective of the research presented in this thesis is to develop, implement, and demonstrate the utility of an n-sheet, state-space alternating-current thin-film electroluminescent (ACTFEL) device model. In this model, the phosphor layer is discretized into n + 1 layers, with band-to-band impact ionization, space charge creation/ annihilation, and luminescent...
Power quality has become an important concern to both electric utilities and
end users due to the increased use of non-linear loads in modem power systems
over the past decade. Nonlinear loads inject harmonics into the power system and
thus may lead to poor power quality and lower power factor....
As the information-processing and telecommunications revolutions now underway will continue to change our life styles in the rest of the 21st century, our personal and economic lives rely more and more on our ability to transact over the electronic medium in a secure way. The privacy, authenticity, and integrity of...
During the last few years we have seen formidable advances in digital and mobile
communication technologies such as cordless and cellular telephones, personal
communication systems, Internet connection expansion, etc. The vast majority
of digital information used in all these applications is stored and also processed
within a computer system, and...
The design of mixed-signal integrated circuits has evolved from simple analog and digital circuits operating on the same silicon substrate to the point that now we have complete system on a chip solutions for communication systems. The levels of integration needed to remain cost effective in today's integrated circuit (IC)...
High bandwidth of networks demands high performance communication processors that integrate application processing, network processing, and system support functions into a single, low cost System-On-Chip (SOC) solution. However, conventional processors, when used in network related applications, are beset by the overhead of save/restore of register context, cache misses due to...
The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) is one of the most popular algorithms to digitally sign streams or blocks of data. In this thesis we concentrate on porting and optimizing the ECDSA on the ARM7 processor for a particular NIST curve over GF(2[superscript m]). The selected curve is a...