Design Space Exploration of Modular Multipliers for ASIC FHE accelerators

Deepraj Soni, Mohammed Nabeel, Homer Gamil, Oleg Mazonka, Brandon Reagen, Ramesh Karri, Michail Maniatakos

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Abstract

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) promises data protection by computation on encrypted data, but demands resource-intensive computation. The most fundamental resource of FHE is modular multiplier, which needs to be evaluated for efficient implementation. In this work, we develop and evaluate ASIC implementations of the modular multiplier at the block-level and at the system-level. We study the efficiency of the multipliers in terms of performance-for-area and performance-for-power. Since these ASICs are used in FHE, we explore these multipliers within this system-level context with on-chip memory and interconnect limits. We explore ASIC implementations of modular multiplications using a state-of-the-art 22nm technology node with constant operand throughput to ensure a fair comparison. The study yields key insights about the performance-for-area efficiency and power efficiency of bit-serial and bit-parallel designs: Bit-parallel designs are more efficient than their bitserial counterparts. Montgomery multipliers with constrained modulus are the most power-efficient and area-efficient design. Iterative Montgomery multipliers incur minimum peak power for a polynomial multiplication, making them suitable for low-power voltage sources.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2023
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9798350334753
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event24th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2023 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Apr 5 2023Apr 7 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED
Volume2023-April
ISSN (Print)1948-3287
ISSN (Electronic)1948-3295

Conference

Conference24th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period4/5/234/7/23

Keywords

  • ASIC acceleration
  • Barrett Reduction
  • Design Space Exploration
  • Interleaved Multiplier
  • Lattice-based Cryptography
  • Modular Multiplier
  • Montgomery Reduction
  • Number Theoretic Transform
  • Polynomial Multiplication

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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