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| Title | An SRAM-programmable field-configurable memory |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 1995 |
| Authors | Ngai, T., J. Rose, and S. J. E. Wilton |
| Conference Name | Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the IEEE 1995 |
| Pagination | 499 -502 |
| Date Published | may. |
| Keywords | application specific integrated circuits, ASIC memory, aspect ratios, field programmable gate arrays, FPGA, memory architecture, memory blocks, reconfigurable architectures, SRAM chips, SRAM-programmable field-configurable memory |
| Abstract | This paper describes the design and implementation of an SRAM-Programmable Field-Configurable Memory (FCM), which has the flexibility to form over two hundred different memory configurations, each with up to four individual memories. The prototype Field-Configurable Memory has four 1 Kb memory blocks, each of which can be configured into four different aspect ratios. It requires just 40 configuration bits and is only 38% larger and 46% slower than the ASIC memory upon which it is based. User memories implemented on this chip require from 16 to 23 times less area than if they were implemented on a Xilinx 4000 series memory architecture. Although this is a standalone FCM implementation, the design can be embedded as part of an FPGA |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CICC.1995.518232 |
| DOI | 10.1109/CICC.1995.518232 |