The present invention provides a high speed data encryption architecture
in which fabric elements are communicatively coupled to one another via a
hardwired interconnect. Each of the fabric elements includes a plurality
of wide field programmable gate array (FPGA) blocks used for wide
datapaths and a plurality of narrow FPGA blocks used for narrow
datapaths. Each of the plurality of wide FPGA blocks and each of the
plurality of narrow FPGA blocks are communicatively coupled to each
other. A control block is communicatively coupled to each of the fabric
elements via the hardwired interconnect to provide control signals to
each of the fabric elements. The fabric elements are used to implement
cryptographic algorithms.