This work evaluates the use of finFET to design a set of basic blocks targeting a regular
layout. The main advantage of this approach is a reduction on area and power consumption …

A structured application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) has prefabricated yet configurable
logic block arrays. We investigate some important via-configurable logic block (VCLB) …

Technology evolution brings new challenges to integrated circuits (IC) design. Parameter
variation and complex design rules demand a great effort to create suitable design …

The continuous devices shrinking has introduced new challenges to integrated circuit
design, mainly to deal with the overall yield loss (Beckett 2002). Designers start to take into …

Regular fabrics have been introduced as an approach to bridge the gap between ASICs and
FPGAs in terms of cost and performance. Indeed, compared to an ASIC, by predefining most …

A structured ASIC, one kind of programmable logic device (PLD), consists of a
homogeneous array of programmable logic elements, or called tiles. The architecture of …

Imposing regularity presents a fundamental limitation to any structured ASIC, or more
generally any programmable logic device. It has been recently shown that irregularity can be …

Heterogenous array of programmable logic (HAPL) can overcome the limitation of
conventional programmable logic by using more than one type of tile. However, it suffers …