Title :
A preliminary version of an optical data-flow architecture
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract :
The author examines how optical systems can be used to break the bottlenecks that conventional electronic implementation imposes and presents an initial proposal for a high-performance and scalable optical data-flow architecture. The architecture exploits the high degree of connectivity and inherent parallelism in optics for implementing a highly parallel instruction-level data-flow multiprocessing system. Architectural and implementation issues are considered
Keywords :
optical information processing; parallel architectures; bottlenecks; connectivity; inherent parallelism; optical data-flow architecture; optical systems; optics; parallel instruction-level data-flow multiprocessing system; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer vision; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Parallel processing; Proposals; Signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1990., Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kailua-Kona, HI
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1990.205107
