Overview: Emerging technologies on giga-scale FPGA implementat
Haigang Yang · 2010
FPGA is an efficient reconfigurable IC platform and is playing an increasingly important role in the electronics prototype implementation. With the rapid development of semiconductor technology and nano-technology over the last decade, FPGA has entered into a Giga-scale era. In this paper, the current status and future directions of Giga-scale FPGAs are presented. Specifically, the emerging technology-based FPGAs such as asynchronous FPGA, 3-dimensional FPGA, memristor-based nanoFPGA, and embedding-module FPGA, are discussed to solve the current FPGA challenges of timing constringency, signal integrity and power issues. This survey article aims to provide a guideline to future FPGA development.