Data encryption/decryption method and data processing device

• US 8,341,394 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2008
• Issued: 12/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IP Wave Pte. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Toshiki, Igura, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): LAFORGIA, CHRISTIAN A
• Application Number:
  US12/667,156
• Publication Number:
  US 20100322419A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,637 Days
• Field of Search: 713/151, 380/255
• US Class Current: 713/151
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/122 Hardware reduction or efficient architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/125 Parallelization or pipelining, e.g. for accelerating processing of cryptographic operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/065 Encryption by serially and continuously modifying data stream elements, e.g. stream cipher systems, RC4, SEAL or A5/3

Abstract

It is possible to improve a radio communication digital baseband processing device including data encryption/decryption so as to prevent processing failure caused by a data rate increase in recent years by increasing the MAC processing speed of data encryption/decryption and realizing the load distribution in a processing device. A data processing device which performs a communication process including data encryption/decryption includes: a control processor which performs calculation of the MAC processing parameter; and MAC processing means which performs MAC data processing including data encryption/decryption. The control processor controls the MAC processing means by a command script continuously describing a combination of a command and parameter accompanying it.

Claims

1. A data processing apparatus performing a communication process including data encryption/decryption processing, the apparatus comprising:

a control processor that performs calculation of a MAC (Medium Access Control) processing parameter; and

MAC processing means that performs MAC data processing including data encryption/decryption processing,

wherein the control processor controls the MAC processing means by a command script continuously describing a combination of a command and parameter accompanying it,

wherein the MAC processing means comprises;

data input means that autonomously reads out and transmits data to be processed from a memory for every encryption/decryption processing unit;

data encryption/decryption processing means that performs encryption/decryption processing of the data for every encryption/decryption processing unit;

data output means that autonomously writes and transmits the resulting data encrypted/decrypted to the memory for every encryption/decryption processing unit; and

a sequencer that performs pipeline processing for the data input means, the encryption/decryption processing means and the data output means.

2. The data processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data input means and the data output means are provided with bit processing means that performs bit processing by bit shift processing or by swap processing without cycle overhead.

3. The data processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data input means and the data output means are provided with a data storage register that prevents reading or writing access to the same memory address from being performed many times.

4. The data processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the MAC processing means has a local memory that stores the command script and MAC processing data, and bus selector means that selects the memory of a source from which the processing data is read out and the memory of a destination to which the resulting data is written from the local memory and a memory at the outside of the MAC processing means in accordance with the parameter in the command script.

5. The data processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the MAC processing means has FIFO control means that continuously processes a plurality of processes.

6. The data processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the MAC processing means has interpreter means that interprets the command script, and sets a parameter to the sequencer and starts the sequencer in accordance with the interpreted command.

7. The data processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the MAC processing means has clock gating means that stops a clock that provides means not required to be executed until a process is inputted.

8. A data encryption/decryption processing method that is performed in a data processing apparatus comprising a control processor that performs calculation of a MAC (Medium Access Control) processing parameter and MAC processing means which comprises data input means, data encryption/decryption processing means, data output means and a sequencer and that performs MAC data processing including data encryption/decryption processing and that performs a communication process including data encryption/decryption processing,

wherein the control processor controls the MAC processing means by a command script continuously describing a combination of a command and parameter accompanying the command,

data input means autonomously reads out and transmits data to be processed from a memory for every encryption/decryption processing unit;

data encryption/decryption processing means performs encryption/decryption processing of the data for every encryption/decryption processing unit;

data output means autonomously writes and transmits the resulting data encrypted/decrypted to the memory for every encryption/decryption processing unit; and

a sequencer performs pipeline processing for the data input means, the encryption/decryption processing means and the data output means.