Cryptographic Externs Support In P416/Vhdl Compiler For Fpga Board Target Platform

Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of data security and secure communication at high speed, which leads to the usage of hardware accelerators, in this case high-speed FPGA NICs. It proposes an effective way how to develop applications for an FPGA-based acceleration platform. The compiler is produced by Netcope Technologies a. s. and is called Netcope P4. It allows development in high-level language P4. The key value of this product is compiler P4_16/VHDL, which compiles a P4 application source code and maps it on a target FPGA platform. The main goal of this paper is the extension of the compiler to support cryptographic external objects, which can be used in the design of applications using cryptographic features like a hash function over payload, encryption, etc. It describes design of pipeline with control block for external objects, interface of these control blocks and implementation steps.