Crystalline In–Ga–Zn–O FET-based configuration memory for multi-context field-programmable gate array realizing fine-grained power gating

A multi-context (MC) field-programmable gate array (FPGA) enabling fine-grained power gating (PG) is fabricated by a hybrid process involving a 1.0 ?m c-axis aligned crystalline In?Ga?Zn?O (CAAC-IGZO) field-effect transistor (FET), which is one of CAAC oxide-semiconductor (OS) FETs, and a 0.5 ?m complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) FET. The FPGA achieves a 20% layout area reduction in a routing switch and an 82.8% reduction in power required to retain data of configuration memory (CM) cells at 2.5 V driving compared to a static random access memory (SRAM)-based FPGA. A controller for fine-grained PG can be implemented at an area overhead of 7.5% per programmable logic element (PLE) compared to a PLE without PG. For each PLE, the power overhead with fine-grained PG amounts to 2.25 and 2.26 nJ for power-on and power-off, respectively, and break-even time (BET) is 19.4 ?s at 2.5 V and 10 MHz driving.

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