New Architectures and CAD Algorithms for Field-Programmable Logic Fabrics

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A Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit that can be programmed to implement virtually any digital circuit. FPGA's are widely used in applications such as telecommunications, bioinformatics, visualization systems, and signal processing. An FPGA's programmability provides users the ability to implement large, complex circuits without requiring access to an expensive state-of-the-art chip manufacturing plant, an expense that is out-of-reach for most small and medium-sized electronics companies. The costs of manufacturing integrated circuits is growing so dramatically that, in the near future, only the large processor, graphics engine, system-on-chip and FPGA companies will be able to build leading-edge devices. For everyone else, programmable logic will provide the only option for building an integrated circuit using leading-edge processes. This will lead to the era of ubiquitous programmable logic, where generic programmable logic devices will be the substrate upon which virtually all applications are built.