Demonstrating POF based optoelectronic interconnect in a multi-FPGA prototype system

Author

Brunfaut, M. ; Meeus, W. ; Dambre, J. ; Bockstaele, R. ; Campenhout, J. Van ; Melchior, H. ; Hall, J. ; Neyer, A. ; Heremans, P. ; Van Koetsem, J. ; King, R. ; Thienpont, H. ; Vanwassenhove, L. ; Baets, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. ELIS, Ghent Univ., Belgium

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

298

Abstract

The goal of our work is demonstrating the viability of massively parallel optical interconnect between electronic CMOS VLSI chips. Here we describe the definition and realisation of a systems architecture in which these interconnections can play a meaningful role. The architecture is a multi-FPGA system with low level optoelectronic interconnects introduced into the FPGA chips. A demonstrator, reaching 10 Gbit/s/chip aggregate bit rate with small-scale custom made optoelectronic FPGAs, shows the feasibility of this approach.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated optoelectronics; optical fibre communication; optical interconnections; 10 Gbit/s; CMOS VLSI chips; POF; multi-FPGA system; optoelectronic interconnect; parallel optical interconnect; plastic optical fiber; Application specific integrated circuits; Field programmable gate arrays; Integrated circuit interconnections; Optical devices; Optical interconnections; Programmable logic arrays; Prototypes; Silicon; Testing; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989636

Filename

989636