TY - JOUR
T1 - Scaling prospect of optically differential reconfigurable gate array VLSIs
AU - Watanabe, Minoru
AU - Shiki, Takenori
AU - Kobayashi, Fuminori
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research is supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan under the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE). The VLSI chip in this study was fabricated in the chip fabrication program of VLSI Design and Education Center (VDEC), the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Rohm Co. Ltd. and Toppan Printing Co. Ltd.
PY - 2009/8
Y1 - 2009/8
N2 - Dynamic reconfigurable devices present new computational paradigms because programmable devices' activity and performance can be improved dramatically by increasing its reconfiguration frequency. Therefore, this paper presents designs of optically differential reconfigurable gate array (ODRGA) VLSIs using 0.18 μm and 0.35 μm CMOS process technologies. Although they are a type of programmable gate array, they can be reconfigured optically in nanoseconds. This paper also discusses future scaling prospects of ODRGA-VLSIs.
AB - Dynamic reconfigurable devices present new computational paradigms because programmable devices' activity and performance can be improved dramatically by increasing its reconfiguration frequency. Therefore, this paper presents designs of optically differential reconfigurable gate array (ODRGA) VLSIs using 0.18 μm and 0.35 μm CMOS process technologies. Although they are a type of programmable gate array, they can be reconfigured optically in nanoseconds. This paper also discusses future scaling prospects of ODRGA-VLSIs.
KW - Field programmable gate arrays
KW - Holographic memories
KW - Optical configuration
KW - Programmable logic devices
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U2 - 10.1007/s10470-008-9210-9
DO - 10.1007/s10470-008-9210-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67651027769
SN - 0925-1030
VL - 60
SP - 137
EP - 143
JO - Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
JF - Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
IS - 1-2
ER -