Title :
CMOS-nano FPGA utilizing mechanical switches
Author :
Liu, Ming ; Wang, Wei
Author_Institution :
Lab. of Nano-fabrication & Novel Devices Integrated Technol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
In this paper, the novel mechanical switch device: suspended-gate FET is applied to FPGA development. This device offers almost an ideal subthreshold swing and a hysteretic resistance switching, opening opportunities for low-power applications. The proposed device can be used as the building block of programmable elements and memory of an FPGA. Based on this device, the proposed FPGA architecture, SG-FPGA, can maintain the baseline FPGA architecture and significantly reduce the size and power consumption of the memory and routing elements. The simulation results demonstrate that the application of SG-FET to FPGA chips can provide at least 3X-5X performance gains in terms of density and power.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; field effect transistors; field programmable gate arrays; low-power electronics; power consumption; CMOS-nano FPGA; hysteretic resistance switching; low-power applications; mechanical switch device; power consumption; programmable elements; programmable memory; subthreshold swing; suspended-gate FET; Field programmable gate arrays; Microelectronics; Roentgenium; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics, 2008. ICM 2008. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sharjah
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2369-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2370-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICM.2008.5393560
