Yet another new idea for FPGAs: Relays?

The article offers information on a paper on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) using electromechanical relays, presented at the International Symposium on FPGAs in February 2011. The paper included works by Stanford University department of electrical engineering and computer science professors and students and researchers at Altera Corp. A conventional FPGA fabric in which MEMS (microelectromechanical-system) relays replace the static random-access memory (SRAM) cells is described.