FPGAs to dominate custom IC caucus: IBM paper to recommend 96% CMOS for BiCMOS circuits. (field programmable gate arrays to take center stage at Custom Integrated Circuits Conference)

EDN, May, 1991 by Arnold, Bill

SAN DIEGO, CA--Sessions during this week's Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) will consider the pros and cons of BiCMOS technology, detail promising neural-network schemes, and ponder the reigning hot topic: field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Papers on custom ICs for Synschronous Optical Network (SONET) applications, digital signal processing (DSP), and mobile communications will also be presented.

Breaking down BiCMOS The first two papers in the session on "High Performance Gate Arrays" attempt to answer a question that chairman George Sporzyncki from IBM Corp (Essex Junction, VT) says he has never seen asked publicly before: "How much of a 'typical' BiCMOS circuit should be composed of CMOS and how much should be bipolar?" ...

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