Design exploration of application specific instruction set cryptographic processors for resources constrained systems

• Main Author: Τσεκούρα, Ιωάννα
• Other Authors: Γκούτης, Κωνσταντίνος
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Wireless sensor networks (WSN); ASIP; ASIC; Advanced Encryption Standard (AES); Encryption; Δίκτυα ασύρματων αισθητήρων; Επεξεργαστές ειδικού σκοπού; Κρυπτογράφηση; 621.399

The battery driven nature of wireless sensor networks, combined with the need of extended lifetime mandates that energy efficiency is a metric with high priority. In the current thesis we explore and compare the energy dissipation of di fferent processor architectures and how it is associated wit...