An FPGA Architecture for ASIC-FPGA Co-design to Streamline Processing of IDSs

Novel methods for unauthorized access are always made. For cyber security measures in mobile devices, low-power and high-speed processing is very important. Despite these situations, a CPU for mobile devices is a very low processing capacity in order to focus on low-power operations and does not have sufficient performance for processing detection processing for unauthorized access. In contrast, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can apply to cyber security processing on mobile devices. By using the FPGA, cyber security processing is able to use parallel processing, super pipeline and processing that is independent of a word width size. However, the FPGA has a problem that the delay times of arithmetic circuits are longer than that of an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or CPU. In this paper, the authors propose an FPGA architecture for ASIC-FPGA co-design for addressing the problem. In order to evaluate the architecture, adders are enhanced by ASIC-FPGA co-design and evaluated. As a result, it is shown that the problem with the delay times of arithmetic circuits is solved.