Re: Fully unrolled RC5 on FPGA

Frédéric Bastien <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:11:13 -0500
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To my knowledge Folding at home try to use graphic card and not FPGA. =

This could be interesting as this don't require new hardware. But we =

will need people that have time to implement it.

Fr=E9d=E9ric Bastien

Olivier Meyer wrote:
> If we will use a microcontroller to control the FPGA, an AVR would be =

> much better than a PIC for many reasons:
> *more register space
> *a GCC port
> *higher speed.
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> Notice that we got to the FPGA before Folding at Home!
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> On 11/15/06, *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>* =

> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     Bonjour,
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>     Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 8:41:25 PM, you wrote:
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>     JLB> Hi Guerric,
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>     JLB> Any chance I can get you go target your design to an
>     XCV2000E-6BG560C
>     JLB> and tell me if it fits and what the clock rate estimate is?
> =

>     JLB> It's just a data point for me to compare two year old data to
>     the XCV4LX
>     JLB> numbers.
> =

>     JLB> Thanks,
>     JLB> John
> =

>     Ok, I can do that.
>     The design will need 4 times the number of bRAMs compared with the
>     Virtex4 design: 16-bit data width and no "read before write" mode.
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>     With this kind of RAMs, a register on the B signal of the KeySchedule
>     bloc could be saved using the fact that input is mirrored to the
>     output of the bRAM while writing. I currently don't plan to make this
>     optimization. (this would mean a saving of 26*3 *32/2 =3D 1250 Slices=
).
>     Whatever, it is probably bad from a place&route point of view.
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>     I will test the full design with the new long shift register and will
>     provides the implementation results.
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>     --
>     Guerric
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