An accelerated chaotic image secure communication system based on Zynq-7000 platform

Chaotic systems are often used as random sequence generators due to their excellent pseudo-randomness, but there is limitation that the discretization of complex chaotic systems requires a long computational time. Therefore, a parallel discretization method for chaotic system, and an accelerated chaotic image secure communication system based on the Zynq-7000 platform are proposed in this paper. Firstly, a 3-dimensional (3-D) chaotic system is constructed to generate random sequence, which has high Shannon entropy (SE) complexity. Then, chaotic system is parallelly discretized through finite state machine, which sequences are combined with scrambling and diffusion algorithms to construct an accelerated chaotic image secure communication system. Finally, the secure communication process based on the Zynq-7000 platform is completed, and the analysis of hardware experimental results shows that the system has safe performances, simple structure and excellent operational efficiency.