Publicly available implementation results of AURORA family are summarized here.
Software Performance
Table 1 : Software Performance
CPU |
language |
Speed |
|
|---|---|---|---|
AURORA-256 |
Core 2 Duo (32-bit) |
ANSI C |
24.3 cycles/byte |
Core 2 Duo (64-bit) |
ANSI C |
15.4 cycles/byte |
|
AURORA-512 |
Core 2 Duo (32-bit) |
ANSI C |
46.9 cycles/byte |
Core 2 Duo (64-bit) |
ANSI C |
27.4 cycles/byte |
|
AURORA-512 version 2 |
Core 2 Duo (32-bit) |
ANSI C |
63.9 cycles/byte |
Core 2 Duo (64-bit) |
ANSI C |
37.8 cycles/byte |
Hardware Performance
Table 2 : Hardware Performance
Optimization |
Area [gates] |
Frequency [MHz] |
Speed [Mbps] |
Efficiency [Kbps/gate] |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AURORA-256 |
Speed |
35,016 |
363.9 |
10,352 |
295.6 |
Efficiency |
20,825 |
252.1 |
7,171 |
344.3 |
|
Area |
8,870 |
304.8 |
1,084 |
122.2 |
|
AURORA-512 |
Speed |
56,748 |
361.2 |
9,132 |
160.9 |
Efficiency |
31,746 |
244.7 |
6,187 |
194.9 |
|
Area |
12,134 |
290.2 |
590 |
48.6 |
|
AURORA-512 version 2 |
Speed |
59,657 |
363.9 |
6,901 |
115.7 |
Efficiency |
31,543 |
244.1 |
4,629 |
146.8 |
|
Area |
12,389 |
302.7 |
467 |
37.7 |
*Using 0.13 µm CMOS ASIC Library.

