FPGA implementation of 16 bit BBS and LFSR PN sequence generator: A comparative study

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to study the FPGA implementation of two 16 bit PN sequence generator namely Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) and Blum-Blum-Shub (BBS). We have used FPGA to explain how FPGA's ease the hardware implementation part of communication systems. The logic of PN Sequence Generator presented here can be changed any time by changing the seed in LFSR or by changing the key used in BBS. The analysis is conceded out to find number of gates, memory and speed requirement in FPGA for the two methods. As Recently the field programmable gate arrays have enjoyed wide spread use due to several advantages related to relatively high gate density, short design cycle and low cost. The greatest advantage of FPGA's are flexibility that we reconfigured the design many times and check the results and verify it on-chip for comparing with others PN sequence generators.