Reconfigurable Blocks Based on Balanced Ternary

  • Authors:
  • Paul Beckett;Tayab Memon

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia;Dept of Electronic & Biomedical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET), Sindh, Pakistan

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Signal Processing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Silicon-on-Insulator CMOS fabrication technologies are now available that offer a number of unique advantages including the availability of multiple simultaneous transistor thresholds. This paper proposes and analyzes a number of circuits for a reconfigurable array organization based on a balanced ternary logic system in which the logic set {驴驴1, 0,驴+驴1} maps directly to equivalent voltage levels {驴1V, 0V, +1V}. A number of low-power, high-speed components, such as a ternary buffer, flip-flop and look-up table, are described and simulated based on the characteristics of a commercially available silicon-on-sapphire process. A brief analysis indicates that the circuits will be capable of operating at the 22 nm technology node and beyond. A simple example of a Sigma-Delta Modulated FIR filter is mapped to the array and some preliminary estimates are made of its performance and area based on both 3-input and 4-input look-up tables. The simulated ternary array is shown to be capable of operating at clock speeds of more than 200 MHz such that it will readily support standard video bandwidths at useful over-sampling ratios.