• 文献标题:   Schottky-barrier graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors-based field-programmable gate array's configurable logic block and routing switch
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KASHANI SAS, ALIDASH HK, MIRYALA S
  • 作者关键词:   schottky barrier, field programmable gate array, nanoribbon, graphene device, field effect transistor circuit, network routing, logic design, flipflop, sequential circuit, schottkybarrier graphene nanoribbon fieldeffect transistor, fieldprogrammable gate array configurable logic block, configurable electronic device, advanced digital system design, international technology roadmap for semiconductor, itrs, siliconbased device, postsilicon material, graphenebased device, graphenebased simple fieldprogrammable gate array, configurable logic structure platform, clb, flipflop, internal sequential logic device, powerdelay product, gnrfetbased routing switch, layout design
  • 出版物名称:   IET CIRCUITS DEVICES SYSTEMS
  • ISSN:   1751-858X EI 1751-8598
  • 通讯作者地址:   Kashan Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1049/iet-cds.2016.0349
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Configurable electronic devices have been developed to provide more flexibility in the advanced digital system design, which needs more device density and there by relies on device scaling. Besides, International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS) has predicted scaling limitation for conventional silicon (Si)-based devices. Researches on post-Si materials have proved that carbon could be one of the material which can replaced with Si. Owing to exceptional properties of graphene, designs with graphene-based devices can replace with Si based ones. This study proposes design and characterisation of graphene-based simple field-programmable gate array as a platform of configurable logic structure for future developments. This study focuses on design and characterisation of configurable logic block (CLB), flip-flop as internal sequential logic devices in CLB, and routing switch, which are designed using graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistor (GNRFET). The results indicate that proposed CLB is much faster than Si based one and power-delay product of proposed sequential element is much lesser than its counterpart in Si-based technology. In addition, the proposed GNRFET-based routing switch requires minimum count of 6 transistors to provide desirable functionality. Foreseeing the feasibility of architecture, this study suggests the possible layout of the proposed logic elements needed for CLB.