Gigahertz Reconfigurable Computing Using SiGe HBT BiCMOS FPGAs

Goda, Bryan; Kraft, R.P.; Carlough, S.R.; Krawczyk, T.W.; McDonald, J. F.

doi:10.1007/3-540-44687-7_7

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“…Several prototype chips have been made before based on the Xilinx 6200 architecture [4]. However, Xilinx 6200 is old and its CLB is simple and weak.…”

Section: Circuit Design Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multi-GHz SiGe design methodologies for reconfigurable computing

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McDonald

2005

Proceedings of the 15th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI

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A high-speed and low-power Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is the dream of digital designers. The availability of Silicon Germanium (SiGe) Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) devices has opened a door for GHz FPGAs [3,4]. In the past, high static power consumption discouraged the significant scale-up of bipolar FPGAs. This paper details new ideas to reduce power and layout area in designing high-speed SiGe BiCMOS FPGAs. The paper explains new methods to reduce circuitry and utilize novel serial dual configuration planes to achieve an efficient programmability. In addition, new layout techniques are developed to reduce the bipolar areas. Several SiGe FPGA test chips based on Xilinx 6200 and Virtex Configurable Logic Blocks (CLBs) have been fabricated for demonstration.

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“…Several prototype chips have been made before based on the Xilinx 6200 architecture [4]. However, Xilinx 6200 is old and its CLB is simple and weak.…”

Section: Circuit Design Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The availability of Silicon Germanium (SiGe) Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) devices has opened a door for GHz FPGAs [3,4]. In the past, high static power consumption discouraged the significant scale-up of bipolar FPGAs.…”

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confidence: 99%