Emerging technology for backplanes and chip-to-chip interconnects

A novel approach is developed by Opticomp Corporation (OCC) to achieve reconfigurable optical interconnects. This approach enables high throughput, high switching speed, low latency, protocol independence, scalability, low power dissipation, and monolithic integration. OCC has developed a distributed crossbar switching architecture that provides dynamic reconfigurability, coupled with a natural reduction in latency. A modular implementation of this architecture is well suited for demanding applications such as optical backplanes and chip-to-chip interconnects.