USING LASER DEFECT AVOIDANCE TO BUILD LARGE-AREA FPGAS

Authors
CHAPMAN GH DUFORT B
Citation
Gh. Chapman et B. Dufort, USING LASER DEFECT AVOIDANCE TO BUILD LARGE-AREA FPGAS, IEEE design & test of computers, 15(4), 1998, pp. 75-81
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Science Hardware & Architecture","Computer Science Hardware & Architecture
Journal title
IEEE design & test of computers → ACNP
ISSN journal
07407475
Volume
15
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
75 - 81
Database
ISI
SICI code
0740-7475(1998)15:4<75:ULDATB>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Wafer-scale techniques of defect avoidance expand the complexity limit s of field-programmable gate arrays by routing around flawed blocks to build working systems. Experiments on test FPGAs show that laser defe ct avoidance produces signal delays half chose of active switches.