“…For instance, in article [13], authors adopt the software/hardware co-design method to implement SM3, which is applied to the financial IC card. Moreover, the different optimized SM3 architecture and methods, such as the 3-stage pipeline approach, the parallel implementation strategy, the optimized architecture adopted the CSA adder, the implementation with the embedded ARM core, etc., are proposed [20][21][22][23][24][25]. Previous work promotes the development of SM3 VLSI architecture which has the characteristics of small hardware area and low power consumption.…”