The Blockchain Hardware Accelerator 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.

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.

The unique architecture of our solution enables high scalability that in turn provides a trade-off between throughput, area and latency. This flexibility allows for an optimal performance for any application regardless of the platform on which the solution is implemented. It supports a wide range of applications in blockchain scaling, cryptocurrency transactions, cloud computing and data centers. In addition our drivers have an asynchronous API (or non-blocking API) which are integrated in OpenSSL Async.