Open AccessSymmetric and Programmable Multi-Chip Module for Low-Power Prototyping System
Author(s) -
MaoHsu Yen,
SaoJie Chen,
Sanko H. Lan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
vlsi design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1065-514X
pISSN - 1026-7123
DOI - 10.1155/2001/19261
Subject(s) - routing (electronic design automation) , interconnection , rapid prototyping , chip , very large scale integration , embedded system , substrate (aquarium) , power (physics) , field programmable gate array , computer science , system on a chip , computer hardware , engineering , electronic engineering , electrical engineering , telecommunications , physics , mechanical engineering , oceanography , quantum mechanics , geology
The advantages of a Multi-Chip Module (MCM) product are its low-power and small-size.But the design of an MCM system usually requires weeks of engineering effort, thuswe need a generic MCM substrate with programmable interconnections to acceleratesystem prototyping. In this paper, we propose a Symmetric and Programmable MCM(SPMCM) substrate for this purpose. This SPMCM substrate consists of a symmetricalarray of slots for bare-chip attachment and Field Programmable Interconnect Chips(FPICs) for substrate routing. Experimental results demonstrate that our FPIC polygonalrouting module uses 12% less switches than the conventional routing modulefor interconnecting bare-chip slots with 84 pads. Also, experiments are conducted todeterminate proper parameters for the VLSI implementation of our FPIC
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