DocumentCode
1301649
Title
Rothko: a three-dimensional FPGA
Author
Leeser, Miriam ; Meleis, Waleed M. ; Vai, Mankuan M. ; Chiricescu, Silviu ; Xu, Weidong ; Zavracky, Paul M.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA
Volume
15
Issue
1
fYear
1998
Firstpage
16
Lastpage
23
Abstract
Using transferred circuits and metal interconnections placed between layers of active devices anywhere on the chip, Rothko aims at solving utilization, routing, and delay problems of existing FPGA architectures. Experimental implementations have demonstrated important performance advantages
Keywords
circuit layout CAD; field programmable gate arrays; logic CAD; FPGA; Rothko; active devices; delay problems; metal interconnections; routing; transferred circuits; utilization; Aluminum; Circuit testing; Computer architecture; Delay; Field programmable gate arrays; Geometry; Integrated circuit interconnections; Logic; Routing; Switches;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7475
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/54.655178
Filename
655178
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