14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'06)
Switch Box Architectures for Three-Dimensional FPGAs
Napa, California
April 24-April 26
ISBN: 0-7695-2661-6
Three-dimensional (3-D) integration is a promising technology [1] for reducing wire lengths in an integrated circuit. 3-D is especially attractive for FPGAs because the interconnect dominates their total area, delay, and power. Here, we design a 3-D FPGA that uses wafer bonding [2] to stack multiple programmable fabrics. Our results indicate that the area-delay product for a 5-layer 3-D FPGA reduces by 36% compared with that for a 2-D FPGA. Three-D technology also has some drawbacks, such as thermal issues because of increased power density. Analyzing these issues constitutes our next step towards designing 3-D FPGAs.
Citation:
Aman Gayasen, N. Vijaykrishnan, Mahmut Kandemir, Arif Rahman, "Switch Box Architectures for Three-Dimensional FPGAs," fccm, pp.335-336, 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'06), 2006