Title
A comparison between mask- and field-programmable routing structures on industrial FPGA architectures
Abstract
In this paper we compare the routing architecture of island-style FPGAs based on field-programmable switch boxes with a mask-programmable routing structure, in order to assess its position in the design space of routing opportunities available to VLSI IC designers. Although the results presented in this work depend on a few implementation details that will be discussed in the paper, the mask-programmable routing structure shows a large area saving and delay improvement with respect to the field-programmable switch box. As a consequence, we believe that between the two bounds of the design space, i.e., ASICs and FPGAs, there are several hybrid architectural solutions trading off performances, power, area, and programmability, which in the future can be considered for different applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/988952.989056
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Keywords
Field
DocType
large area saving,delay improvement,design space,field-programmable routing structure,different application,mask-programmable routing structure,field-programmable switch box,hybrid architectural solution,vlsi ic designer,routing architecture,industrial fpga architecture,island-style fpgas,routing,fpga
Routing architecture,Design space,Switch box,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Routing (electronic design automation),Very-large-scale integration,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-853-9
1
0.36
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Macchiarulo124019.08
Consolato F. Caccamo210.36
Davide Pandini39415.76