A nonvolatile field-programmable gate array (NV-FPGA), where the circuit-configuration information still remains without power supply, offers a powerful solution against the standby power issue. In this paper, an NV-FPGA is proposed where the programmable logic and interconnect function blocks are described in a hardware description language and are pushed through a standard-cell-based design flow with nonvolatile flip-flops. The use of the standard-cell-based design flow makes it possible to migrate any arbitrary process technology and to perform architecture-level simulation with physical information. As a typical example, the proposed NV-FPGA is designed under 55nm CMOS/100nm magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) technologies, and the performance of the proposed NV-FPGA is evaluated in comparison with that of a CMOS-only volatile FPGA.
Daisuke SUZUKI
University of Aizu
Takahiro HANYU
Tohoku University
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Daisuke SUZUKI, Takahiro HANYU, "Nonvolatile Field-Programmable Gate Array Using a Standard-Cell-Based Design Flow" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E104-D, no. 8, pp. 1111-1120, August 2021, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2020LOP0010.
Abstract: A nonvolatile field-programmable gate array (NV-FPGA), where the circuit-configuration information still remains without power supply, offers a powerful solution against the standby power issue. In this paper, an NV-FPGA is proposed where the programmable logic and interconnect function blocks are described in a hardware description language and are pushed through a standard-cell-based design flow with nonvolatile flip-flops. The use of the standard-cell-based design flow makes it possible to migrate any arbitrary process technology and to perform architecture-level simulation with physical information. As a typical example, the proposed NV-FPGA is designed under 55nm CMOS/100nm magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) technologies, and the performance of the proposed NV-FPGA is evaluated in comparison with that of a CMOS-only volatile FPGA.
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