Title
Building Blocks to Use in Innovative Non-volatile FPGA Architecture Based on MTJs
Abstract
This paper addresses the need for a non-volatile reconfigurable FPGA in order to allow for many current applications to transition away from costly ASIC development. It is assumed that an architecture has been selected and needs to be filled with blocks designed at the transistor level. These are to allow for non-volatility by means of magnetic tunnel junction devices (MTJs). Circuit level designs are presented, together with their successful simulations. The blocks are therefore assembled together and electrically sound simulations are presented for a fully functional FPGA of minimal size. Design and testing is carried out in Cadance Virtuoso and Spectre along with the IBM p13 toolkit. The typical parameters of a University of Tohoku MTJ are used in a SPICE model developed by University of Minnesota.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ISVLSI.2012.21
ISVLSI
Keywords
Field
DocType
field programmable gate arrays,integrated circuit design,magnetic tunnelling,ASIC development,Cadance Virtuoso,IBM p13 toolkit,MTJ,SPICE model,Spectre,University of Minnesota,University of Tohoku,circuit level designs,electrically sound simulations,innovative nonvolatile FPGA architecture,magnetic tunnel junction devices,reconfigurable field programmable logic array,transistor level
Architecture,IBM,Spice,Field-programmable gate array,Application-specific integrated circuit,Integrated circuit design,Engineering,Transistor,Embedded system,Hardware architecture
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2159-3469
978-1-4673-2234-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Montesi100.34
Zeljko Zilic2312.96
Takahiro Hanyu331.09
Daisuke Suzuki400.34