[ACM Press the 2007 international symposium - Portland, OR, USA (2007.08.27-2007.08.29)] Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Low power electronics and design - ISLPED '07 - Low power FPGA design using hybrid CMOS-NEMS approach

✍ Scribed by Zhou, Yu; Thekkel, Shijo; Bhunia, Swarup

• Book ID: 118010512
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2007
• Weight: 554 KB
• Volume: 0
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1595937099
• DOI: 10.1145/1283780.1283785

✦ Synopsis

Higher integration density of nanoscale CMOS causes two major design challenges in SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) designs: large power dissipation (contributed by both leakage and dynamic power) and reduced reliability of operation. In this paper, we propose a hybrid design approach for SRAM-based FPGA that can leverage on non-volatile carbon nanotube based nano electro-mechanical systems (NEMS) switches for low static and dynamic power. Simulations show that the proposed CMOS-NEMS lookup table (LUT) based circuits can achieve a reduction of up to 91% in total power at iso-performance, compared to the conventional CMOS-based LUT circuits.