Field programmable gate array device with antifuse overcurrent p

Details Field programmable gate array device with antifuse overcurrent p Field programmable gate array device with antifuse overcurrent p

1993-07-26

1995-03-21

Westin, Edward P.

Electronic digital logic circuitry

Multifunctional or programmable

Having details of setting or programming of interconnections...

327525, H03K 19177, H01H 3776

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active

053999231

ABSTRACT:
A field programmable gate array (10) having a plurality of logic modules (31-35) has a pair of driver circuits (51-52) connected between each logic module (31) and logic module interconnection tracks or lines (12-16, 20-23) (51-52). Each of the drivers (51-52) has an input connected to receive a common output signal from the associated logic module (31). The output from each of the driver circuits (51-52) is selectively connectable to one of the interconnection tracks by a different respective antifuse (27). The output of each driver circuit (51-52) has a current magnitude less than a level that would damage the antifuse (27) but greater than a predetermined level, so that the track capacitances can be charged as rapidly as possible to increase the propagation time of a signal in the array. In one embodiment (10), the respective logic module interconnection lines or tracks 12 to which the pair of antifuses are connected are different logic module interconnection lines (12, 13). In another embodiment (150), the respective logic module interconnection lines to which the pair of antifuses (185, 186) are connected are the same logic module interconnection line or track (186).

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