• 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