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Mar, 2009

Fast Optical Reconfiguration of a Nine-Context DORGA

International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • Mao Nakajima
  • ,
  • Minoru Watanabe

Volume
5453
Number
First page
123
Last page
132
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-00641-8_14
Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN

Demand for fast dynamic reconfiguration has increased since dynamic reconfiguration can accelerate the performance of implementation circuits. Such dynamic reconfiguration requires two important features: fast reconfiguration and numerous contexts. However, fast reconfigurations and numerous contexts share a trade-off relation on current VLSIs. Therefore, optically reconfigurable gate arrays (ORGAs) have been developed to resolve this dilemma. ORGAs can realize a large virtual gate count that is much larger than those of current VLSI chips by exploiting the large storage capacity of a holographic memory. Also, ORGAs can realize fast reconfiguration through use of large bandwidth optical connections between a holographic memory and a programmable gate array VLSI. Among such developments, we have been developing dynamic optically reconfigurable gate arrays (DORGAs) that realize a high gate density VLSI using a photodiode memory architecture. This paper presents the first demonstration of a nine-context DORGA architecture. Furthermore, this paper presents experimental results: 1.2-8.97 mu s reconfiguration times and 66-221 mu s retention times.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00641-8_14
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000265022700011&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-00641-8_14
  • ISSN : 0302-9743
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000265022700011

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