We introduce a new type of planar optical interconnect;the transverse holographic waveguides. With this type of interconnect, one dimensional, input light distribution is converted into a one dimensional output light ...
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The design of a terabit free-space photonic backplane for parallel computing and communications is described. The backplane consists of a large number of parallel reconfigurable optical channels spaced a few hundred m...
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The design of a terabit free-space photonic backplane for parallel computing and communications is described. The backplane consists of a large number of parallel reconfigurable optical channels spaced a few hundred microns apart. The parallel channels are organized as a unidirectional ring and the channel access protocols are implemented by smart pixel arrays. Smart pixel arrays are integrated opto-electronic devices with optical I/O and with electronic processing capabilities. The design of a 32×32 smart pixel array which supports multiple reconfigurable broadcast channels and interfaces between tens of Gb/s of electrical data and hundreds of Gb/s of optical data is proposed. The photonic backplane interconnects 32 Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and has a bisection bandwidth of 1 terabit/sec (Tb/s), with each PCB receiving a bandwidth of 32 Gb/s. The backplane can be dynamically reconfigured to support 1024 broadcast channels at 1 Gb/s, 32 broadcast channels at 32 Gb/s, or many intermediate values. The backplane can also embed arbitrary graphs, including meshes, hypercubes, shuffles, etc. Smart pixel arrays are currently being fabricated using AT&T's Hybrid-SEED process, and a demonstration of the architecture interconnecting 4 PCBs is planned for the fall of 1995.
In this paper we study the practical implementation of arrays of differential pairs of optical thyristors in systems and demonstrate some basic functionalities as a first step towards the construction of a primitive d...
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In this paper we study the practical implementation of arrays of differential pairs of optical thyristors in systems and demonstrate some basic functionalities as a first step towards the construction of a primitive digital paralleloptical processor. We demonstrate element to element digital optical data transcription between single elements at 0.5 MHz. This is a lower data rate than the 50 MHz demonstrated for transcription between neighbouring elements on a single wafer but is due to the fact that we employ an optical system which allows plane to plane imaging with a wider field of view but lower efficiency. This allows us to demonstrate transcription between 8×8 arrays of elements with a channel data rate of 50 kHz. By using a compact optical system which combines large diameter GRIN lenses with Fourier plane diffractive optics we are able to implement a system with three cascaded thyristor stages with an element to array fan-out of 3. Moreover we demonstrate digital optical logic NAND, NOR, AND and OR operations at a speed of 160 kHz. Finally we investigate system scalability.
Focal plane processing applications present a growing computing need for portable telecomputing and videoputing systems. This paper demonstrates the integration of digital processing, analog interface circuitry, and t...
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Focal plane processing applications present a growing computing need for portable telecomputing and videoputing systems. This paper demonstrates the integration of digital processing, analog interface circuitry, and thin film OE devices into a compact computing package. The SIMPil architecture provides a programmable, silicon efficient SIMD processor for effective execution of early image processing applications such as edge detection, convolution, and compression. Results from a demonstration SIMPil node are presented including its microarchitecture, and performance on image processing applications.
We discuss the selection and use of optoelectronic devices in parallel computers to increase the effective processing rate. The coherence problem of keeping consistent copies of data in all caches is resolved by using...
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Already for a decade, papers have been presented and ideas have been generated to rationalize advantages and disadvantages of electrical over optical and optical over electrical properties. Despite the undisputable su...
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The proceedings contain 28 papers. The topics discussed include: high-performance electrical signaling;entrepeneurship is a career option;integrated free-space optical interconnects for chip-to-chip communications;opt...
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(纸本)0818685727
The proceedings contain 28 papers. The topics discussed include: high-performance electrical signaling;entrepeneurship is a career option;integrated free-space optical interconnects for chip-to-chip communications;optical multi-faceted free-space image distributor for massivelyparallelprocessing;translucent smart pixel array (TRANSPAR) chips for high throughput networks and SIMD signal processing;a free space optical crossbar switch using wavelength division multiplexing and vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers;strategies for competitive optical interconnection technologies;opportunities for optical communications in petaflops-scale computing;multicast communication in a class of rearrangeable optical WDM network;optimal routing and channel assignments for hypercube communication on optical mesh-like processor arrays;multicast control in optical circuit-switched banyan networks;performance improvement of parallelprocessing systems with fully or highly connected opticalinterconnections over systems with a bus;channel allocation, power budget and bit error rate in hierarchical optical ring interconnection network (HORN);a new analysis for wavelength translation in regular WDM networks;and a high-performance router architecture for multimedia applications.
The multimedia communication needs high-performance, cost-effective communication techniques to transport data for the fast-growing multimedia traffic resulting from the recent deployment of World Wide Web (WWW), medi...
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(纸本)0819422991;9780819422996
The multimedia communication needs high-performance, cost-effective communication techniques to transport data for the fast-growing multimedia traffic resulting from the recent deployment of World Wide Web (WWW), media-on-demand , and other multimedia applications. To transport a large volume, of multimedia data, high-performance servers are required to perform media processing and transfer. Typically, the high-performance multimedia server is a massivelyparallel processor with a high number of I/O ports, high storage capacity, fast signal processing, and excellent cost-performance. The parallel I/O ports of the server are connected to multiple clients through a network switch which uses parallel links in both switch-to-server and switch-to-client connections. In addition to media processing and storage, media communication is also a major function of the multimedia system. Without a high-performance communication network, a high-performance server can not deliver its full capacity of service to clients. Fortunately, there are many advanced communication technologies developed for networking, which can be adopted by the multimedia communication to economically deliver the full capacity of a high-performance multimedia service to clients. The VCSEL array technology has been developed for gigabit-rate parallelopticalinterconnections because of its high bandwidth, small-size, and easy-fabrication advantages. Several firms are developing multifiber, low-skew, low-cost ribbon cables to transfer signals form a VCSEL array. The OC12 SONET data-rate is widely used by high-performance multimedia communications for its high-data-rate and cost-effectiveness. Therefore, the OC12 VCSEL paralleloptical interconnection is the ideal technology to meet the high-performance low-cost requirements for delivering affordable multimedia services to mass users. This paper describes a multimedia OC12 paralleloptical interconnection using a VCSEL array transceiver, a multifiber ribbon c
Communication complexity and latency is a critical problem in multiprocessor systems. A significant portion of communication latency is associated with the interconnect network. Optics has many advantages for achievin...
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Fiber optic links offer several advantages over copper-based links including greater transmission distances, reduced cable and connector bulk and improved electrical isolation yet copper-based links are still the pred...
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(纸本)0818685727
Fiber optic links offer several advantages over copper-based links including greater transmission distances, reduced cable and connector bulk and improved electrical isolation yet copper-based links are still the predominant choice for parallelinterconnections. The overwhelming disadvantage for fiber optic links to date has been the cost of the technology. The Jitney optical Bus was designed to push the limits of low cost optics while maintaining enough performance for high speed parallel computing. Jitney is a 20 channel (500Mb/s/ch) optical bus packaged in a plastic molded lead frame with a 'snap together' plastic optical coupler The cables use plastic ferrules and large core fiber Manufacturing cost estimates are competitive with copper;and significantly under $100/Gbit/sec, for full duplex, Gigabyte/sec operation. Jitney has been successfully demonstrated in IBM AS/400 and RS6000 Power parallel systems testbeds.
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