Optical interconnection as an IP macro of a CMOS library

Author

Yoshikawa, Takashi ; Hatakeyama, Ichiro ; Miyoshi, Kazunori ; Kurata, Kazuhiko ; Sasaki, Junichi ; Kami, Nobuharu ; Sugimoto, Takara ; Fukaishi, Muneo ; Nakamura, Kazu Uki ; Tanaka, Kei ; Nishi, Hiroaki ; Kudoh, Tomohiro

Author_Institution

Opt.-Interconnection, NEC Lab., Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

35

Abstract

With the aim of producing a switch LSI with several-hundred-Gb/s-class throughput, we first developed LAN-LSIs with 10-Gb/s-class optical input/output (I/O) buffer. The optical I/O buffer was supplied as a set consisting of an optical-electrical package, soft or hard macros of the optical interface, and library files for a targeted CMOS technology. Using such library files, system LSI designers can implement an optical interface in their chips in a conventional design manner

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; LAN interconnection; large scale integration; macros; optical interconnections; CMOS library; IP macro; LAN-LSIs; library files; optical interconnection; optical interface; optical-electrical package; switch LSI; CMOS logic circuits; High speed optical techniques; Integrated circuit interconnections; Large scale integration; Libraries; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical design; Optical interconnections; Packaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Hot Interconnects 9, 2001.

Conference_Location

Stanford, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1357-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HIS.2001.946690

Filename

946690