Characteristics and programming of floating-gate pFET switches in an FPAA crossbar network

Author

Gray, Jordan D. ; Twigg, Christopher M. ; Abramson, David N. ; Hasler, Paul

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

23-26 May 2005

Firstpage

468

Abstract

A floating-gate pFET is a desirable switch element for use in a crossbar switch due to it having a resistance on the order of a transmission gate, the capacitance of a single pass-FET, and requires no digital memory to store the state of the switch. As a result, a floating-gate pFET crossbar network can achieve a higher bandwidth than a transmission gate based network. In addition, the resulting floating-gate implementation has a smaller silicon footprint than an array of transmission gates with the necessary support structures. Finally, the resistance of the floating-gate switch is achieved by modulating the input gate voltage during channel hot-electron injection.

Keywords

electronic switching systems; field effect transistor switches; field programmable analogue arrays; hot carriers; FPAA crossbar network; channel hot-electron injection; field-programmable analog array; floating-gate pFET switches; input gate voltage modulation; network bandwidth; pFET switch programming; switch element capacitance; switch element resistance; Capacitance; Computer networks; Electric resistance; Field programmable analog arrays; Impedance; Intelligent networks; Nonvolatile memory; Power supplies; Switches; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISCAS 2005. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8834-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1464626

Filename

1464626