Low-power and area-optimized VLSI implementation of AES coprocessor for Zigbee system

A low-power and low-cost advanced encryption standard (AES) coprocessor is proposed for Zigbee system-on-a-chip (SoC) design. The cost and power consumption of the proposed AES coprocessor are reduced considerably by optimizing the architectures of SubBytes/InvSubBytes and MixColumns/InvMixColumns, integrating the encryption and decryption procedures together by the method of resource sharing, and using the hierarchical power management strategy...