Design and Verification of a Pipelined Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Encryption Algorithm with a 256-bit Cipher Key Using the UVM Methodology
Devyani Madhukar Mirajkar · RIT Scholar Works (Rochester Institute of Technology) · 2018
Encryption is the process of altering information to make it unreadable by anyone except those having the key that allows them to change information back to the original readable form. Encryption is important because it allows you to securely protect the data that you don’t want anyone else to have access to. Today, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is the most widely adopted encryption method. Till date there are no cryptanalytic attacks discovered against AES. Hence the verification of the hardware implementation of the AES Core is of utmost importance. In this research paper, the design and verification of a pipelined AES hardware module using a 256-bit cipher key is discussed in detail. The verification environment is developed using the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and SystemVerilog. The verification environment will validate the implementation of the AES Encryption Algorithm by comparing the outputs of the hardware design Design Under Test and a reference model developed in C.