Title
High-Density and High-Reliability Nonvolatile Field-Programmable Gate Array With Stacked 1D2R RRAM Array
Abstract
The huge area overhead of the interconnect is one of the critical issues in static random access memory (SRAM)-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), resulting in high power consumption and slow operation speed. Another critical issue is the volatile feature of the SRAM, which leads to high standby leakage current and long power-ON time. Resistive random access memory (RRAM) with a high resistance ratio and zero standby power possesses great potential in the FPGA applications. The conventional RRAM-based nonvolatile FPGAs (NVFPGAs) may use one-transistor 2-RRAM (1T2R) storage element to replace the SRAM or the one RRAM (1R) cell to replace both nMOS switch and SRAM. However, those NVFPGA schemes may suffer from the issues of low reliability, high configuration power, and high active leakage power. In this paper, we propose a novel element [one-diode two-RRAM (1D2R) cells] to replace the nMOS switch and 6 Transistors (6T) SRAM. Meanwhile, the novel block structures of the logic block, connection block, switch block, and the FPGA architecture based on the 1D2R element are proposed. Compared with the conventional 1T2R-based NVFPGA, our novel structure could improve the operation speed by 53% with a 40.5% lower operation power. Compared with the conventional 1R-based NVFPGA, the proposed scheme could greatly reduce the write error rate by eight orders with more than 20 times lower write power.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TVLSI.2015.2389260
VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
crossbar,field-programmable gate arrays (fpgas),high reliability,low power,nonvolatile,one-diode two-rram (1d2r),resistive random access memory (rram),write error rate.,computer architecture,routing,resistance,field programmable gate arrays,switches
Leakage (electronics),Standby power,NMOS logic,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Static random-access memory,Electronic engineering,Logic block,Transistor,Resistive random-access memory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1063-8210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.47
26
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kejie Huang1483.08
R. Zhao2669.41
He, W.350.81
Yong Lian450.47