A Design and Implementation of Montgomery Modular Multiplier

Abstract

Large integer multiplication is the critical operation to design a modular multiplier. Karatsuba algorithm(KO algorithm) to split the operands into two parts is generally used to design a large integer multiplier. In this paper, we firstly propose a design of 258-bit multiplier based on KO-3 algorithm deduced by KO algorithm, with which hardware resources can be reduced than KO algorithm. Then we construct a 256-bit four-stage pipelined Montgomery modular multiplier on the base of proposed multiplier. Finally, we implement the design of modular multiplier on Virtex-6 FPGA platform. This design can run at the clock rate of 68 MHz with 187.9k LUTs approximately. In addition, our design can obtain the result of Montgomery modular multiplier for every clock. Compared with other designs on FPGA, our design shows a better performance in term of area-time product.