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Traditional Field-Programmable Gate Arrays suffer from a lack of routing resources when implementing complex logic designs. This paper proposes two possible improvements to the FPGA structure that could alleviate these problems. We suggest extending the FPGA class to 3-D architectures. The 3-D architectures could be constructed of a stack of optically interconnected 2-D planes. Furthermore, we suggest a hierarchical distribution of routing resources that closely matches the wire length distributions of the intended class of applications.
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Depreitere, J. et al. (1994). An optoelectronic 3-D Field Programmable Gate Array. In: Hartenstein, R.W., ServÃt, M.Z. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic Architectures, Synthesis and Applications. FPL 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 849. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58419-6_120
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