ECDSA signature verification engine

Description

ECDSA Verification IP Core — When Safety & Security Meet the Best Size/Performance Ratio

The CryptOne ECDSA Verification IP Core combines robust security with exceptional size/performance efficiency, enabling high-speed verification of elliptic-curve digital signatures for modern embedded systems, SoCs, and FPGAs. Built on the principles of elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC), ECDSA is a cornerstone of secure digital communication, providing data integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation.

CryptOne’s ECDSA engine verifies digital signatures by leveraging the mathematical properties of elliptic curves. Each signature generated from a private key is efficiently verified using the corresponding public key, ensuring that only authentic and untampered data is accepted. This process is critical for applications such as secure transactions, identity verification, firmware validation, and encrypted communications.


Optimized Algorithms and Hardware Architecture

The IP core employs a suite of highly optimized elliptic-curve algorithms, delivering fast, accurate, and deterministic signature verification. Compliance with FIPS 186 guarantees interoperability with existing cryptographic infrastructures while meeting stringent security standards.

CryptOne’s scalable IP architecture maximizes performance while minimizing resource usage. The core achieves:

  • High-speed ECDSA verification for low-latency, real-time applications

  • Minimal silicon footprint for resource-constrained FPGAs and ASICs

  • Energy-efficient operation, ideal for battery-powered and embedded devices

  • Seamless integration into complex SoC and FPGA environments

This combination of performance, efficiency, and compactness makes the CryptOne ECDSA Verification IP Core an ideal solution where computational efficiency and cryptographic assurance are paramount.


Secure, Efficient, and Standards-Compliant

By integrating the CryptOne ECDSA Verification IP Core, designers gain a high-performance, FIPS-compliant solution for verifying digital signatures across a wide range of applications—from IoT and automotive systems to industrial controllers and secure communications networks. With CryptOne, organizations can ensure the integrity, authenticity, and trustworthiness of all digital interactions without sacrificing performance or silicon resources.

When safety and security meet the best size/performance ratio… CryptOne delivers the ultimate ECDSA verification engine.

ALL DCD’S IP CORES ARE TECHNOLOGY AGNOSTIC, ENSURING 100% COMPATIBILITY WITH ALL FPGA AND ASIC VENDORS.

For further details, email info@dcd.pl.

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Key features

  • Supported Elliptic Curves
    • NIST SECP P-256 R1
    • NIST SECP P-384 R1
    • Koblitz SECP P-256 K1
    • Koblitz SECP P-384 K1
    • Brainpool P-256 R1
    • Brainpool P-384 R1
    • Brainpool P-512 R1
    • other/custom curves optional support
  • Optional Side Channel Attacks countermeasures
  • Input/Output EC point verification
  • Fully synthesizable, synchronous design
  • Highly configurable in terms of performance and resource consumption
  • Minimum operation delay at 200 MHz:
    • Point multiplication:
      • EC256: 2.5 ms
      • EC384: 5.0 ms
    • ECDSA signature generation
      • EC256: 2.6 ms
      • EC384: 5.2 ms
    • ECDSA signature verification
      • EC256: 3.1 ms
      • EC384: 6.3 ms
  • Estimated resource usage
    • from 30k to 110k NAND gates

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