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This paper proposes an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and direct spread spectrum (DSS) to implement Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tag chip for highly secure wireless communication. Digital baseband controller (DBC) and nonlinear feedback shift register (NLFSR) have been used to generate control signal, data transfer, and random number sequences for ECC processor and DSS compatible with ISO/IEC 14443. In order to achieve optimized resources in field programmable gate array (FPGA) for ECC, point multiplication, reusable registers, and asynchronous counter are adopted. The proposed work has been implemented on two Spartan 6 FPGAs. Wireless communication between them has been established via Zigbee modules. Single-user DS-SS system using pseudo-chaotic sequence as spreading sequence and RFID transmitter and receiver in FPGA development kit targeted to Xilinx’s Spartan 6 device XC6S45-2tq324 has been implemented. The proposed elliptic curve processor (ECP) in digital baseband controller (DBC) needs only 8.58 K gate area and has a delay of 7.509 ns. The synthesis results show that the power consumption of DBC including ECP and other units in transmitter and receiver is only 381.58 μW at 35,810 kHz. Considerable improvement in power dissipation, area, and delay has been achieved. Security of the data has been ensured by using ECC.
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Neelappa, Kurahatti, N.G. (2018). Design and Implementation of ECC-Based RFID Tag for Wireless Communications on FPGAs. In: Reddy, M., Viswanath, K., K.M., S. (eds) International Proceedings on Advances in Soft Computing, Intelligent Systems and Applications . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 628. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5272-9_38
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