TY - GEN
T1 - Sustainable advantage of a parallel configuration in an optical FPGA
AU - Watanabe, Minoru
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/2/10
Y1 - 2016/2/10
N2 - Recently, static random access memory (SRAM)-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are used for various systems. Since such SRAM-based FPGAs are programmable, their use over a long period must accommodate the use of a partly damaged programmable gate array. However, since current FPGAs use a serial configuration line for their configuration and the serial configuration circuit is invariably first broken circuit. Therefore, currently available FPGAs cannot accommodate the use of a partly damaged programmable gate array. However, if a partly damaged programmable gate array could be used, then the lifetime of VLSIs would be increased drastically. To extend the lifetime of programmable devices, FPGA should use a parallel configuration architecture instead of the serial configuration architecture of currently available FPGAs. This paper therefore clarifies the benefits of the parallel configuration architecture on an optically re-configurable gate array (ORGA) VLSI using the designs of an ORGA-VLSI and a currently available serial-configuration FPGA.
AB - Recently, static random access memory (SRAM)-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are used for various systems. Since such SRAM-based FPGAs are programmable, their use over a long period must accommodate the use of a partly damaged programmable gate array. However, since current FPGAs use a serial configuration line for their configuration and the serial configuration circuit is invariably first broken circuit. Therefore, currently available FPGAs cannot accommodate the use of a partly damaged programmable gate array. However, if a partly damaged programmable gate array could be used, then the lifetime of VLSIs would be increased drastically. To extend the lifetime of programmable devices, FPGA should use a parallel configuration architecture instead of the serial configuration architecture of currently available FPGAs. This paper therefore clarifies the benefits of the parallel configuration architecture on an optically re-configurable gate array (ORGA) VLSI using the designs of an ORGA-VLSI and a currently available serial-configuration FPGA.
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U2 - 10.1109/SII.2015.7405083
DO - 10.1109/SII.2015.7405083
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84963778121
T3 - 2015 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2015
SP - 807
EP - 810
BT - 2015 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 8th Annual IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2015
Y2 - 11 December 2015 through 13 December 2015
ER -