The design and realization of a new high speed FPGA-based chaotic true random number generator

Abstract

Chaotic systems and chaos-based applications have been commonly used in the fields of engineering recently. The most essential part of them is the chaotic oscillator that has very critical role in some applications such as chaotic communications and cryptography. In this study, Sundarapandian-Pehlivan chaotic system has been modeled and simulated in three distinct platforms to show the advantages of FPGA-based chaotic oscillator with respect to alternative solutions. In the first stage, the chaotic system has been modeled numerically by the help of fourth order of Runge-Kutta (RK4) method. Additionally, phase portraits of the system have been obtained and Lyapunov exponents have been examined. Secondly, the system has been modeled by using PSpice for the implementation of the chaotic system with analog circuit elements. Then, Pspice simulation results have been compared with the numerical outcome to justify the designed model. Furthermore, the chaotic system has been physically confirmed with real analog circuit elements. Signals obtained from the physical system have been verified with both numerical and PSpice results. It has been also modeled by the help of method of RK4 in a hardware description language (VHDL) and the model further has been synthesized and tested for Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA chip. Finally, the chaotic oscillator designed has been tested for True Random Number Generators (TRNG) and the maximum operating frequency has been achieved as 293 MHz with a speed of 58.76 Mbit/s. Besides, the random bit sets produced by TRNG have been further verified by FIPS-140-1 and NIST-800-22 statistical standards and it has been proved that the proposed design can be used in embedded cryptologic applications. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.