Design of FPGA Building Blocks Using LTspice®

Abstract

This research work discusses the design and simulation of essential blocks of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), such as N-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) Pass Transistor, Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM), Input/Output block (IOB), and Slice in LTspice. The blocks are referred from the Spartan-3 FPGA family and are designed in 180 nm technology. The blocks designed here can be configured to the desired functionality by placement and routing of the individual blocks in Verilog to routing (VTR).