FREEWAY ROUTING SYSTEM FOR A GATE ARRAY

摘要

A freeway routing system for connecting input and output ports of interface groups of tiles in a field programmable gate array. The freeway system has a first set of routing conductors configured to transfer signals between the input ports of interface groups in a first tile of the field programmable gate array and the output ports of interface groups of other tiles in the field programmable gate array. The first set conductors include vertical conductors that form intersections with horizontal conductors and programmable interconnect elements located at the intersections of the vertical conductors and horizontal conductors in a diagonal orientation to connect each of the horizontal conductors to one of the vertical conductors.