Low-energy embedded FPGA structures

  • Authors:
  • Eric Kusse;Jan Rabaey

  • Affiliations:
  • EECS Department, University California at Berkeley, CA;EECS Department, University California at Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • ISLPED '98 Proceedings of the 1998 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper introduces an energy-efficient FPGA module, intended for embedded implementations. The main features of the proposed cell include a rich local-interconnect network, which drastically reduces the energy dissipated in the wiring, and a dual-voltage scheme that allows pass-transistor networks to operate at low-voltages yet maintain decent performance. Simulations on a benchmark set demonstrate that the proposed module succeeds in its goal of reducing energy consumption by an order of magnitude over existing implementations.