Modern Programmable Interconnect Design
Stefan Nikolić
Published in Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025
Preface: With Moore’s law coming to an end, today’s rising demand for compute puts increasingly more hope in specialized hardware implemented on reconfigurable architectures such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Yet, it is often neglected that these architectures themselves experience problems caused by technology scaling. In fact, due to their lower logic density and the need to provide interconnect programmability, rising wire resistance impacts the performance of FPGAs particularly negatively. This is further complicated by the traditional problem of reconfigurable architecture design: exact critical paths are not known at fabrication time.
Recommended citation: Stefan Nikolić, "Modern Programmable Interconnect Design". Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025. ISBN: 978-3-031-80628-5