Title :
Design studies for an ASIC implementation of an optical OFDM transceiver
Author :
Bouziane, Rachid ; Milder, Peter ; Koutsoyannis, Robert ; Benlachtar, Yannis ; Berger, Christian R. ; Hoe, James C. ; Püschel, Markus ; Glick, Madeleine ; Killey, Robert I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We designed at the register-transfer-level the DSP circuits for a 21.8 Gb/s QPSK-OFDM transceiver, and carried out synthesis and simulations assessing performance, power consumption and chip area, to determine their suitability for low-cost optical interconnects.
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; frequency division multiplexing; optical interconnections; optical receivers; optical transmitters; quadrature phase shift keying; ASIC; DSP circuits; QPSK-OFDM transceiver; bit rate 21.8 Gbit/s; low-cost optical interconnects; optical OFDM transceiver; register-transfer-level; Discrete Fourier transforms; OFDM; Optical interconnections; Optical transmitters; Power demand; Receivers; Transceivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621361
