Antifuse field programmable gate arrays

Author

Greene, Jonathan ; Hamdy, Esmat ; Beal, Sam

Author_Institution

BioCAD Corp., Mountain View, CA, USA

Volume

81

Issue

7

fYear

1993

fDate

7/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1042

Lastpage

1056

Abstract

An antifuse is an electrically programmable two-terminal device with small area and low parasitic resistance and capacitance. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) using antifuses in a segmented channel routing architecture now offer the digital logic capabilities of an 8000-gate conventional gate array and system speeds of 40-60 MHz. A brief survey of antifuse technologies is provided. the antifuse technology, routing architecture, logic module, design automation, programming, testing and use of ACT antifuse FPGAs are described. Some inherent tradeoffs involving the antifuse characteristics, routing architecture and logic module are illustrated

Keywords

PLD programming; application specific integrated circuits; circuit layout CAD; integrated circuit testing; logic CAD; logic arrays; logic testing; network routing; 40 to 60 MHz; ACT; antifuse FPGAs; design automation; electrically programmable two-terminal device; field programmable gate arrays; logic module; programming; segmented channel routing architecture; testing; Electric resistance; Field programmable gate arrays; Logic arrays; Logic design; Logic devices; Logic programming; Logic testing; Parasitic capacitance; Programmable logic arrays; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5.231343

Filename

231343