Architectural Considerations Involved in the Design of an Optical Digital Computer

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 1984, Pages 780-786

  Huang, Alan ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADABLE OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; CONSTRAINED CONNECTIVITY; INTERCONNECTION BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL DIGITAL COMPUTER; PARALLEL PIPELINED STRUCTURE;

COMPUTERS - DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE, OPTICAL; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING - DESIGN;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0021461232     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1984.12938     Document Type: Article

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