A 12-Gb/s DEMUX Implemented with SiGe high-speed FPGA circuits

  • Authors:
  • Chao You;Jong-Ru Guo;Russell P. Kraft;Michael Chu;Bryan Goda;John F. Mcdonald

  • Affiliations:
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND;IBM, HSS Serial Interface Engineering Department, NY;Electrical Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;Electrical Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY;Electrical Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A 7-12-Gb/s demultiplexer implemented with circuits for a high-speed field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is introduced in this paper. Since the first FPGA was released by Xilinx in 1985, FPGAs have become denser and more powerful. The first FPGA that operates in the microwave range was designed in 2000. Various methods, such as a new basic cell structure and multimode routing, are used to make that design faster and less power consuming. Sequential logic functions are analyzed and tested in this paper with a DEMUX implementation using these high-speed FPGA circuits. A chip measurement has shown that the FPGA can operate at a 12-GHz system clock when configured to perform sequential logic. A DEMUX that operates at 12 Gb/s is used here to demonstrate the potential for high-performance and low-power FPGA features.