Title :
A pipelined TDM optical bus with conditional delays
Author :
Li, Yueming ; Pan, Yi ; Zheng, S.Q.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Abstract :
A new pipelined time-division multiplexing optical bus for implementing a linear array parallel computer architecture is proposed. In this bus system, switches are introduced on the receiving segment of the bus to control the signal delays on the optical waveguide. The states of switches are dynamically programmable under the control of processors according to computation needs. The linear processor arrays based on such buses can be used as building blocks to construct parallel architectures of higher dimensions to achieve improved scalability and performance.
Keywords :
optical interconnections; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; system buses; time division multiplexing; bus system; conditional delays; linear processor arrays; optical bus; optical waveguide; parallel architectures; parallel computer architecture; pipelined TDM optical bus; time-division multiplexing; Computer architecture; Control systems; Optical arrays; Optical control; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Parallel architectures; Process control; Propagation delay; Time division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7975-1
DOI :
10.1109/MPPOI.1997.609208
