A Design Implementation and Comparative Analysis of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Algorithm Using Verilog HDL

Abstract

As the technology is getting more and more advanced day by day in a rapid pace the problem for the security of data is also increasing at a very staggering rate. The hackers are equipped with new advanced tools and techniques to break any security system. Hence people are getting even more concerned about their data and data’s security. The data security can be achieved by either software or hardware implementations or both put together working in harmony. In this work Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) device is used for hardware implementation since these devices are less complex, more flexible and provide and have far greater more efficiency. This work mainly focuses on the hardware execution of one of the security algorithms that is the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm which is the most highly used algorithm for Encryption. The AES algorithm is executed on Vivado 2014.2 ISE Design Suite and therefore the results are observed on 28 nanometers (nm) Artix-7 FPGA. This work Mainly discusses the design implementation of the AES algorithm and the resources which are consumed in implementing the AES design on Artix-7 FPGA. The resources which are consumed are as follows- Slice Register (SR), Look-Up Tables (LUTs), Input/Output (I/O) and Global Buffer.