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Multiple Independent Gate FETs: How Many Gates Do We Need?

Amarù, Luca
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Hills, Gage
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Gaillardon, Pierre-Emmanuel
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2015
Proceedings of the 20th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2015)
20th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2015)

Multiple Independent Gate Field Effect Transistors (MIGFETs) are expected to push FET technology further into the semiconductor roadmap. In a MIGFET, supplementary gates either provide (i) enhanced conduction properties or (ii) more intelligent switching functions. In general, each additional gate also introduces a side implementation cost. To enable more efficient digital systems, MIGFETs must leverage their expressive power to realize complex logic circuits with few physical resources. Researchers face then the question: How many gates do we need? In this paper, we address the logic side of this question. We determine whether or not an increasing number of gates leads to more compact logic implementations. For this purpose, we de- velop a logic synthesis flow that intrinsically exploits a MIGFET switching function. Using simplified design assumptions and device/interconnect models, we synthesize MCNC benchmarks on 5 promising MIGFET devices, with number of gates ranging from 1 to 7. Experimental results evidence nontrivial area/delay/energy minima, located between 1 and 4 gates, depending on a MIGFET switching function and device/interconnect technology.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ASPDAC.2015.7059012
Author(s)
Amarù, Luca
Hills, Gage
Gaillardon, Pierre-Emmanuel
Mitra, Subhasish  
De Micheli, Giovanni  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
Proceedings of the 20th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2015)
ISBN of the book

978-1-4799-7790-1

Start page

243

End page

248

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
20th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2015)

Chiba/Tokyo, Japan

January 19-22, 2015

Available on Infoscience
September 4, 2014
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