Programmable Floating Gate FPAA Switches Are Not Dead Weight

Author

Twigg, Christopher M. ; Gray, Jordan D. ; Hasler, Paul E.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

fYear

2007

fDate

27-30 May 2007

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

172

Abstract

In most reconfigurable systems, such as FPAAs and FPGAs, the switch element and its associated memory cell is a necessary overhead for performing computation with the active components. However, floating gate based switches in large-scale FPAAs can be programmed anywhere between simple "off" and "on" connections, which allows these programmable conductances to be used as computational elements within synthesized circuits. This decreases the notion of switches as computational dead weight and increases the potential computational area efficiency within FPAAs

Keywords

field programmable analogue arrays; reconfigurable architectures; FPAA switches; associated memory cell; computational area efficiency; computational dead weight; computational elements; programmable conductances; programmable floating gate; synthesized circuits; Circuit synthesis; Coupling circuits; Field programmable analog arrays; Field programmable gate arrays; Large-scale systems; Nonvolatile memory; Routing; Switches; Switching circuits; Virtual colonoscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2007. ISCAS 2007. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0920-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0921-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378248

Filename

4252598