Title :
Programmable Floating Gate FPAA Switches Are Not Dead Weight
Author :
Twigg, Christopher M. ; Gray, Jordan D. ; Hasler, Paul E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA
Abstract :
In most reconfigurable systems, such as FPAAs and FPGAs, the switch element and its associated memory cell is a necessary overhead for performing computation with the active components. However, floating gate based switches in large-scale FPAAs can be programmed anywhere between simple "off" and "on" connections, which allows these programmable conductances to be used as computational elements within synthesized circuits. This decreases the notion of switches as computational dead weight and increases the potential computational area efficiency within FPAAs
Keywords :
field programmable analogue arrays; reconfigurable architectures; FPAA switches; associated memory cell; computational area efficiency; computational dead weight; computational elements; programmable conductances; programmable floating gate; synthesized circuits; Circuit synthesis; Coupling circuits; Field programmable analog arrays; Field programmable gate arrays; Large-scale systems; Nonvolatile memory; Routing; Switches; Switching circuits; Virtual colonoscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2007. ISCAS 2007. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0920-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0921-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378248
