Via-Programmable Structured ASIC Fabric Based on MCML Cells: Design Flow and Implementation

Author

Badel, Stéphane ; Hatirnaz, Ilhan ; Leblebici, Yusuf ; Brauer, Elizabeth J.

Author_Institution

EPFL-STI-IMM-LSM, Lausanne

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

6-9 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

88

Abstract

This paper presents a regular layout fabric made of via-programmable MCML universal logic cells for structured ASIC applications and the associated design flow. The proposed structured ASIC fabric offers very high noise immunity due to the differential operation, as well as low production cost due to the via-programmable properties of the universal logic cell. Implementations of a number of circuits are presented and the area/speed performances are compared with classical CMOS implementation using a commercial standard cell library in 0.18 mum CMOS technology.

Keywords

CMOS logic circuits; application specific integrated circuits; ASIC fabric; CMOS implementation; MCML cells; commercial standard cell library; regular layout fabric; size 0.18 mum; universal logic cells; via-programmable properties; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Costs; Crosstalk; Electronic mail; Fabrics; Libraries; Logic gates; Signal synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2006. MWSCAS '06. 49th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Juan

ISSN

1548-3746

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0172-0

Electronic_ISBN

1548-3746

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2006.382001

Filename

4267078