Paper Info
Title
Non-volatile FPGAs based on spintronic devices
Abstract
This paper presents an innovative architecture for radiation-hardened FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). This architecture is based on the use of MTJs (Magnetic Tunnel Junctions), magnetic nanostructures used as basic elements of MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory). These devices are totally immune to radiations and can be used as a reference memory to perform “scrubbing” techniques, which consist in regularly reloading the configuration of the FPGA to fix the radiation induced errors that may have occured. This approach allows hardening the circuits at low cost in terms of area, while reducing the standby power consumption and offering new functionalities, like dynamic reconfiguration. A silicon demonstrator was implemented, including a 2-inputs LUT (Look Up Table) and tested using a digital tester, giving encouraging results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2463209.2488889
Design Automation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
MRAM devices,elemental semiconductors,field programmable gate arrays,magnetic tunnelling,magnetoelectronics,radiation hardening (electronics),silicon,2-input LUT,2-input look up table,MRAM basic elements,MTJ,magnetic nanostructures,magnetic random access memory basic elements,magnetic tunnel junctions,nonvolatile FPGA,power consumption,radiation induced errors,radiation-hardened FPGA,radiation-hardened field programmable gate array,scrubbing techniques,silicon demonstrator,spintronic devices,DRAM,FPGA,LUT,MRAM,MTJ,radiation hardning,scrubbing,soft error
Lookup table,Standby power,Soft error,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Electronic engineering,Magnetoresistive random-access memory,Electronic circuit,Control reconfiguration,Embedded system,Random access
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0738-100X
6
0.58
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olivier Goncalves160.58
Guillaume Prenat28013.62
Gregory Di Pendina3337.27
Bernard Dieny460.58