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Low-Cost and Programmable CRC Implementation based on FPGA (Extended Version)
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  • Huan Liu ,
  • Zhiliang Qiu ,
  • Weitao Pan ,
  • Jun Li ,
  • Ling Zheng ,
  • Ya Gao
Huan Liu
Xidian University, Xidian University, Xidian University

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Abstract

Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is a well-known error detection code that is widely used in Ethernet, PCIe, and other transmission protocols. The existing FPGA-based implementation solutions are faced with the problem of excessive resource utilization in high-performance scenarios. The padding zeros problem and the introduction of programmability further exacerbate this problem. In this brief, the stride-by-5 algorithm is proposed to achieve the optimal utilization of FPGA resources. The pipelining go back algorithm is proposed to solve the padding zeros problem. The method of reprogramming by HWICAP is proposed to realize programmability with a small and constant resource utilization. The experimental results show that the resource utilization of proposed non-segmented architecture is 84.1% and 37.6% lower than those of two state-of-the-art FPGA-based CRC implementations, and the proposed segmented architecture has a lower resource utilization by 83.9% and 8.9% compared wtih the two state-of-the-art architectures; meanwhile, the throughput and programmability are guaranteed. We made the source code available on GitHub.
Jan 2021Published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs volume 68 issue 1 on pages 211-215. 10.1109/TCSII.2020.3008932