Overview
An increasing number of applications today demand encryption data rates which only a
few years ago seemed unreachable. Helion believe that despite the technical
challenges, it should not be the encryption processing which limits your performance.
For this reason, Helion have developed a range of four AES core families each
offering a different speed/area balance which together cover any throughput
requirement up to more than 40Gbps; this way you can choose the most optimal
fit for your particular requirement. In this section we look at the Giga AES core family.
Helion Giga AES Solutions
The Helion Giga AES core family is our very highest rate solution, aimed at applications
which require tens of Gigabits per second throughput. Unlike most very high rate solutions
available, this core is truly scaleable, so you can choose exactly the amount of processing
power that your application requires. It is perfect for many demanding applications,
for example optical networking, multi-channel video encryption or securing server-class
data storage. The result is a core with extremely high throughput capabilities, which
is available for use in the majority of ASIC and FPGA technologies.
The Giga AES family forms a very powerful and flexible platform, and can be specified
to support full AES encryption and decryption using any combination of the three AES key sizes
(128-, 192-, and 256-bits). It can be used to implement many of the common block cipher
modes as well as many of the more recent complex modes. For example, recent developments
towards a standard for securing "Data at Rest" has produced a requirement for very high rate
AES-XTS (previously AES-XEX) and AES-GCM
mode support, and the Helion Giga AES platform is ideally suited to fulfilling this need.
Clearly this core offers massive throughput, but what also sets it apart is the care and
attention we have applied to making this performance easy to access. Helion's many years of
experience in developing highly flexible security system components has been fully utilised
to make this Giga AES platform the most usable solution of its type. It is intended to
be highly agile between messages, and it also includes a number of unique and innovative
features to assist testing, certification, and system integration. Engineers looking to
integrate the Giga AES core into their system design will be pleasantly surprised by the
powerful yet thoughtful features Helion have included as standard.
Since the Helion Giga AES solutions are fully scalable and highly configurable, standard
area and performance figures are not provided here; instead we suggest that you contact
Helion with your specific requirements, so that customised metrics can be supplied
for a solution which closely matches your needs.
Contact
For more detailed information on this or any of our other products and services,
please feel free to email us at
helioncores@heliontech.com and we will be pleased to discuss how we can assist
with your individual requirements.
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