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

fYear

1997

fDate

22-24 June 1997

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

201

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7975-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MPPOI.1997.609208

Filename

609208