Design of an application-specific PLD architecture

This paper presents a new application-specific PLD architecture which adopts a bit-level super-systolic array for application-specific arithmetic operation such as MAC. The proposed design offers a significant alternative view on programmable logic device. The bit-level super-systolic array whose cells contain another systolic array is ideal for newly proposed PLD architecture in terms of area efficiency and clock speed as it limits the routing requirement in a PLD to local interconnections between logic units and to global interconnections between logic modules. The maximum clock cycle is limited only by one AND gate and one full adder.