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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1999
Shunsuke Kamijo, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A practical Galois field arithmetic processor capable of high-speed operation with a simple configuration is disclosed. The processor comprises an instruction decoder, an arithmetic unit including a Galois field vector adder, a Galois field vector multiplier and a Galois exponent adder-subtractor for executing the Galois field arithmetic operation on first and second operands. In the case where the arithmetic unit includes at least a Galois field vector adder and a Galois field vector multiplier, an exponent-vector conversion circuit is provided for converting the second operand from an exponential expression into a vectorial expression, and an instruction is provided for performing the Galois field operation on the vectorially expressed first operand and the exponentially expressed second operand. With this configuration, in the case where the vectorially expressed data is input as the first operand and the exponentially expressed data is input as the second operand, the second operand is converted into a vectorial expression by the conversion circuit, after which the arithmetic operation is performed in the Galois field vector adder or the Galois vector multiplier.