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You will work on the design, integration, and evaluation of hardware accelerators for well-identified mathematical functions used in post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, with a strong focus on demonstrating concrete performance benefits on a real embedded platform.\nYour mission\nYou will study state-of-the-art approaches described in the scientific literature on PQC hardware acceleration, including relevant academic work such as this recent study, and implement the selected ones. You will focus in particular on the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) and the Keccak state permutation function, two key computational functions involved in the implementation of algorithms such as ML-KEM and ML-DSA (lattice-based PQC algorithms).\nYou will be responsible for developing system-level RTL code using SystemVerilog, integrating the resulting accelerators into a complete hardware/software system, and evaluating their impact on application-level performance. 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