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NuPGA: Back to the antifuse!-February 4, 2010 |
R. Colin Johnson at EE Times provided us some more details of the NuPGA architecture from serial ASIC pioneer Zvi Or-Bach. Guess what? All the pondering last summer about graphene-based memory patents at NuPGA was just a sideshow. The company’s real claim to fame is to go back to an antifuse-based programming element, the same concept that provided Actel Corp.'s claim to fame, and made Actel's products popular in radiation-tolerant mil-aero accounts. In NuPGA's case, the antifuse element is implemented in a 3D configuration to minimize the inherent real-estate problems with antifuses.