Project description
This project focuses on the VLSI implementation of certain key modules employed in real-time multimedia applications that require efficient VLSI implementation using hardware security techniques. Modern multimedia applications have high requirements regarding the processing and transmission of huge data volumes at increasingly high speeds and at low hardware complexity and consumed power. Hardware security techniques have the potential to significantly improve the advantages of software-only solutions by the introduction of non-algorithmic processes that are truly random.
We intend to introduce hardware security (HS) techniques in the VLSI implementation of key multimedia modules in an efficient manner with additional costs that are as small as possible by using some innovative techniques and methods and to obtain extremely efficient VLSI implementations that achieve performances that can overcome current solutions, even those that don’t use HS techniques. For this we propose a new approach based on innovative techniques and methods that can substantially improve the performances of the VLSI implementations of these modules. We will consider new computational structures (CS) that are adequate for VLSI implementation using HS techniques, new methods for efficient conversion of DSP algorithms in these new computational structures and, in order to obtain a high level of flexibility, we will integrate the Approximate Computing technique that will lead to small integers CS.
Project objectives
- Development of computational structures that can be used in VLSI algorithms for multimedia modules that have the ability to facilitate the integration of hardware security techniques.
- Development of new VLSI algorithms for multimedia modules that facilitate the embedding of hardware security techniques.
- Development of new VLSI architectures for the implementation of certain multimedia modules that efficiently embed hardware security techniques.