A Survey of FPGA Logic Cell Designs in the Light of Emerging Technologies

The functional component for an FPGA is the logic element which enables it to adapt various hardware descriptions. This behavior mostly due MUX-like flexibility provided by these elements or cells. However, in recent years, decelerating transistor sizing as per Moore’s law has led diminishing power, area and delay returns over cost. Hence, idea of venturing into cell designs based on emerging technologies becoming not merely attractive, but even inescapable. present work surveys conventional non-conventional proposed literature identifying four design families, namely LUT-based, cone-based, matrix/cluster-based array-based. We then carry out a detailed comparison at two levels - quantitative metrics like govern overall performance architectures secondly qualitative factors are important considering ease mainstream adoption. highlight importance introducing co-optimizing novel devices maximize performance.