Abstract

VLSI designs for Galois field multipliers, which are central in many encoding and decoding procedures for error-detecting and error-correcting codes, are presented. An AT/sup 2/-optimal Galois-field multiplier based on AT/sup 2/-optimal integer multipliers for a synchronous VLSI model is exhibited. Galois field multiplication is done in two steps. First two polynomials (of degree n-1) over Z/sub p/ are multiplied, and then the resulting polynomial is reduced modulo a fixed irreducible polynomial (of degree n). Multiplication of polynomials is done by discrete Fourier transform (DFT). For p=2, the procedure is more involved for Z/sub p/(x) than for Z(x). An extension to the case of variable p is included and some open problems are stated.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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