Emulating optically inspired massively parallel non-Boolean operators on FPGA

Author

Kiss, A. ; Nagy, Zsolt ; Szolgay, Peter ; Roska, Tamas ; Csaba, Gyorgy ; Hu, Xiaobo Sharon ; Porod, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Comput. & Autom. Res. Inst., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2014

fDate

29-31 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate two optically inspired massively parallel non-Boolean operators running on FPGA. One of the algorithm is based on the Paraxial Helmholtz Equation: which describes the beam propagation through different media with different refractive indices, and the other is based on the concepts of optical computing: quasi-optical wave equations are solved numerically, using FPGA-accelerated hardware. The second algorithm describes a holographic pattern-matching algorithm. Both of the two FPGA-based implementations are very well parallelizable, consequently they are also be amenable to mega-core architectures.

Keywords

Helmholtz equations; field programmable gate arrays; light propagation; microprocessor chips; optical computing; FPGA-accelerated hardware; beam propagation; mega-core architectures; optical computing; optically inspired massively parallel nonBoolean operator emulation; paraxial Helmholtz equation; quasi-optical wave equations; refractive indices; Computer architecture; Equations; Field programmable gate arrays; Image processing; Mathematical model; Program processors; Propagation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications (CNNA), 2014 14th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Notre Dame, IN

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNNA.2014.6888612

Filename

6888612