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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2008
Thomas Koehler, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Thomas Fuchs, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Ulrich Mayer, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Chung-lung Kevin Shum, New York, NY (US);
Scott Barnett Swaney, New York, NY (US);
Thomas Koehler, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Thomas Fuchs, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Ulrich Mayer, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Chung-Lung Kevin Shum, New York, NY (US);
Scott Barnett Swaney, New York, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A multiprocessor electronic circuit and an electronic data processing system comprising such circuit are disclosed for reducing the power consumption and the chip area consumption of a multiprocessor system having cryptographic functionality. In one embodiment, the multiprocessor electronic circuit comprises a plurality of processors, a single cryptographic processing unit that comprises a plurality of input/output buffer pairs and two cryptographic engines, a cipher engine and a hash engine, and associated control logic.