Blockchain Hardware Accelerator

Blockchain Hardware Accelerator | Silex Insight

Offload the Compute Intensive Public Key Operations such as Signature Generations and Verifications

Blockchain has a wide range of applications on the internet. As it is decentralized by design, it is an alternative to the many traditional transactional systems.

In order for a blockchain system to be viable (scalability, interoperability and sustainability), the complex and time/power consuming cryptographic operations associated with the blockchain should be offloaded to an accelerating system.

Our solution is a secure public key infrastructure engine that can be used to offload compute-intensive public key operations such as signature generations and verifications.

WHY Blockchain Hardware Accelerator?

Incredible improvement for CPU overhead and work processing efficiency issues with dedicated blockchain hardware

The unique architecture of our solution enables:

High scalability
Provides a trade-off between throughput, area and latency
Optimal performance for any application regardless of the platform on which the solution is implemented
Can easily be ported to ASIC and FPGA
Supports a wide range of applications in blockchain scaling, cryptocurrency transactions, cloud computing and data center
Our drivers have an asynchronous API (or non-blocking API) which are integrated in OpenSSL Async

HIGH PERFORMANCE

1/2 Million verifications
per second!

Using the secp256k1
curve

100K

250K

500K

500K Verifications per second

Wide variety of ECC curves supported

• Weierstrass
• Edwards
• Montgomery
• Twisted-Edwards
+ others

Wide variety of ECC curves supported

• Weierstrass
• Edwards
• Montgomery
• Twisted-Edwards
+ others

Blockchain – Step by Step

The blockchain hardware accelerator uses a combination of a load dispatcher and a configurable number of instances of our Public Key Crypto Engine (BA414EP). This saves time and space as the transaction load is distributed among several components, thereby increasing the overall transaction speed and output. The architecture allows for high performance offloading and supports all the cryptography algorithms such as ECC. ECDSA operations that are used by popular blockchain applications like Ethereum, Ripple and Bitcoin and Hyperledger are supported next to EdDSA using the Edwards25519 curve as used in the Libra blockchain.

3 Solutions

We offer 3 different solutions to best suit your needs. Feel free to contact us and we are happy to discuss and find out the best solution for your needs.

I) Cloud Solution

II) Plug'n Play Solution

III) IP Core Solution

• AWS Marketplace •

• Xilinx Alveo Cards •

• ASIC/FPGA IP •

• AWS Marketplace •

Cloud Solution

Amazon Web Service (AWS) F1
Accelerate your transactions even further by adding our Blockchain Hardware Accelerator to the Amazon EC2 F1 instances. Easy to deploy and with tremendous output.

• Xilinx Alveo Cards •

Plug’n Play Solution

Xilinx Alveo Cards
The Alveo Cards from Xilinx is proven to be one of the best-in-class for blockchain transactions. When our Blockchain Hardware Accelerator is added, it gives an extremely high performance that can securely process an incredible amount of signature verifications.

• ASIC/FPGA IP •

IP Core Solution

FPGA/ASIC Integration

The Blockchain hardware accelerator IP core is easily portable to ASIC and FPGA. It supports a wide range of applications on various technologies. The unique architecture enables a high level of scalability enabling a trade-off between throughput, area and latency.

By implementing the Blockchain Hardware Accelerator from Silex Insight, scalability is no longer a bottleneck and we are now capable of massive adaptation and tremendous throughput, without compromising security.

Silex Insight is an ideal partner with a rich history within embedded security and a proven technology for massive public key operations.

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TG Han

Vice President of Medium Inc.

Business Benefits of Blockchain

Tighter Security

Transparent & Tracking

Simpler & Faster

Reduced Cost

Increased Trust

Wide Area of Applications

While blockchain is still to a great extent used in recording and storing transactions for cryptographic forms of money, for example, Bitcoin, advocates of blockchain innovation are creating and testing different utilizations for blockchain, including these:

Blockchain transactions have the potential to revolutionize the world economy, and we are excited to deliver security solutions according to the market needs. It is not only about connecting the cryptographic standard to the blockchain requirement, but also about setting a new performance benchmark on minimum power consumption.