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Presentation 2010-09-16 13:00
A Regular Expression Matching Circuit Based on an NFA with Multi-Character Consuming
Hiroki Nakahara, Tsutomu Sasao, Munehiro Matsuura (KIT) RECONF2010-20
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) This paper shows an implementation of a regular expression circuit based on an NFA~(Non-deterministic finite automaton).
Also, it shows that the NFA based one is superior to the DFA~(Deterministic finite automaton) based one, with respect to the area complexity and the time complexity.
A regular expression matching circuit is produced as follows:
First, the given regular expressions are converted into a non-deterministic finite automaton~(NFA).
Then, to reduce the number of states, the NFA is converted to a modular non-deterministic finite automaton~(MNFA(p)) with p-character-consuming transition.
Finally, a finite-input memory machine~(FIMM) to detect p-characters is generated, and the matching elements~(MEs) realizing the states for the MNFA(p) are generated.
We designed MNFA(p) for different p on Xilinx FPGA.
As for the performance per area, our method is 6.2-18.6 times better than the DFA-based methods, and is 1.8 times better than the NFA-based method.
Then, we derive an optimal value p that efficiently uses both LUTs and embedded memories of the FPGA.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) FPGA / regular expression / NFA / pattern matching / SNORT / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 110, no. 204, RECONF2010-20, pp. 13-18, Sept. 2010.
Paper # RECONF2010-20 
Date of Issue 2010-09-09 (RECONF) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee RECONF  
Conference Date 2010-09-16 - 2010-09-17 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Shizuoka University (Faculty of Eng., Hall 2) 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Reconfigurable Systems, etc. 
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Conference Code 2010-09-RECONF 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) A Regular Expression Matching Circuit Based on an NFA with Multi-Character Consuming 
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Keyword(1) FPGA  
Keyword(2) regular expression  
Keyword(3) NFA  
Keyword(4) pattern matching  
Keyword(5) SNORT  
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1st Author's Name Hiroki Nakahara  
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT)
2nd Author's Name Tsutomu Sasao  
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT)
3rd Author's Name Munehiro Matsuura  
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT)
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Date Time 2010-09-16 13:00:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for RECONF 
Paper # RECONF2010-20 
Volume (vol) vol.110 
Number (no) no.204 
Page pp.13-18 
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Date of Issue 2010-09-09 (RECONF) 


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