Accelerating keccak algorithms

Abstract

A method comprises fetching, by fetch circuitry, an encoded parity instruction comprising at least one opcode, a first source identifier for a first source, a second source identifier for a second source, a third source identifier for a third source, and a destination identifier for a destination, decoding, by decode circuitry, the encoded parity instruction to generate a decoded parity instruction; and executing, by execution circuitry, the decoded parity instruction to retrieve operands representing a first register from the first source, a second register from the second source, a third register from the third source, and an index from the third source, perform an XOR operation of four words of data from the first register and single word of data from the second register in a position represented by the index to generate a parity value, and store the parity value in a the first register in a position represented by the index.