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AT94KAL Series FPSLIC
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Cell Connections
Figure 5(a) depicts direct connections between an FPGA cell and its eight nearest neighbors.
Figure 5(b) shows the connections between a cell five horizontal local buses (one per busing
plane) and five vertical local buses (one per busing plane).
Figure 5.
Cell Connections
The Cell
Figure 6 depicts the AT40K FPGA embedded core logic cell. Configuration bits for separate
muxes and pass gates are independent. All permutations of programmable muxes and pass
gates are legal. Vn is connected to the vertical local bus in plane n. Hn is connected to the hor-
izontal local bus in plane n. A local/local turn in plane n is achieved by turning on the two pass
gates connected to Vn and Hn. Up to five simultaneous local/local turns are possible.
The logic cell can be configured in several “modes”. The logic cell flexibility makes the FPGA
architecture well suited to all digital design application areas, see Figure 7. The IDS layout tool
automatically optimizes designs to utilize the cell flexibility.
(a) Cell-to-Cell Connections
(b) Cell-to-Bus Connections
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