High-speed VLSI concentrators for terabit intelligent optical backplanes

Supmonchai, Boonchuay; Szymanski, Ted H.

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“…Our experience indicates that the control circuits for the concentrators tend to be among the most complex circuits on the SPA and will ultimately determine the minimum latency of each SPA. Our research has thus led to designs for fast selfrouting concentrators with logarithmic delays for use in terabit optical networks [29].…”

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Architecture of a Terabit Free-Space Intelligent Optical Backplane

Szymański

Hinton

1998

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

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Section: Smart Pixel Designmentioning

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Architecture of a Terabit Free-Space Intelligent Optical Backplane

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Hinton

1998

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

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“…Several free-space optical backplanes has been proposed in the litterature [1][2][3][4]. Compared to these, we propose the use of a passive fiber-optic backplane without the need for additional opto-electronic components to interface with the backplane.…”

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Modular interconnection system for optical PCB and backplane communication

Agelis

Jacobsson

Jönsson

et al. 2002

Proceedings 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

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This paper presents a way of building modular systems with a powerful optical interconnection network. Each module, placed on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), has a generic optical communication interface with a simple electronic router. Together with optical switching using micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) technology, packet switching over reconfigurable topologies is possible. The interconnection system gives the possibility to integrate electronics with optics without changing existing PCB technology. Great interest from industry is therefore expected and the cost advantages are several: reuse of module designs, module upgrades without changing the PCB, low-cost conventional PCB technology, etc. In the version described in this paper, the interconnection system has 48 bidirectional optical channels for intra-PCB communication on each board. For inter-PCB communication, a backplane with 192 bidirectional optical channels supports communication between twelve PCBs. With 2.5 Gbit/s per optical channel in each direction, the aggregated intra-PCB bit rate is 120 Gbit/s full duplex (on each PCB) while the aggregated inter-PCB bit rate is 480 Gbit/s full duplex. A case study shows the feasibility of the interconnection system in a parallel processing system for radar signal processing.

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“…Smart pixel arrays then act as intelligent routers that can, e.g., bypass data or perform data extraction operations where some data pass to the local PCB and some data are retransmitted to the next PCB [66]. Each smart pixel array can typically contain 1 000 smart pixels arranged in a 2-dimensional array, where each pixel has a receiver, a transmitter, and a simple processing unit.…”

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Optical interconnection technology in switches, routers and optical cross connects

Jönsson

Proceedings International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

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High-speed VLSI concentrators for terabit intelligent optical backplanes

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Architecture of a Terabit Free-Space Intelligent Optical Backplane

Architecture of a Terabit Free-Space Intelligent Optical Backplane

Modular interconnection system for optical PCB and backplane communication

Optical interconnection technology in switches, routers and optical cross connects

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