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Compact galois field multiplier

US4847801A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 26, 1987
Grant dateJul 11, 1989
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Expiry dateOct 26, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/158
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Multiplication of two mq-bit bytes (in GF2.sup.mq) is reduced modulus an irreducible polynomial in GF2.sup.m of degree q to multiplication among two sets of q m bit bytes (in GF2.sup.m) in order to simplify hardware and reduce costs, by distributing the computation among a small number of programmable read only memories (PROMs) and adders.

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