Title :
An 11 GHz FPGA with test applications
Author :
You, Chao ; Guo, Jong-Ru ; Chu, Michael ; Zhou, Kuan ; Kraft, Russell P. ; McDonald, John F. ; Goda, Bryan
Author_Institution :
ECSE Dept., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
Abstract :
FPGAs have been a popular topic among electrical engineers for over a decade. Modern FPGAs are denser, faster and use less power compared to PLD and CPLD. This paper presents a high speed FPGA that operates in the gigahertz range. An improved reconfigurable circuit is described. State-of-the-art IBM SiGe BiCMOS technology is used to realize this high speed FPGA. A measurement on a fabricated chip proves that this FPGA is capable of operating at 11 GHz, a SONET OC-192 standard, for optical applications.
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit measurement; integrated circuit testing; 11 GHz; IBM SiGe BiCMOS technology; SONET OC-192 standard; SiGe; high speed FPGA; optical application; reconfigurable circuit; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Circuit testing; Field programmable gate arrays; Germanium silicon alloys; High speed optical techniques; Measurement standards; Power engineering and energy; SONET; Semiconductor device measurement; Silicon germanium;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2005. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9362-7
DOI :
10.1109/FPL.2005.1515706
