Selective optical broadcast component for reconfigurable multiprocessor interconnects

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 828-836

  Artundo, Iñigo ^a,b   Desmet, Lieven ^b   Heirman, Wim ^c   Debaes, Christof ^a,b   Dambre, Joni ^a,c   Van Campenhout, Jan M ^a,c   Thienpont, Hugo ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Broadcasting; Optical interconnections; Reconfigurable architectures; Shared memory systems

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY (DSM); RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; SHARED MEMORY SYSTEMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE;

BROADCASTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 33747224786     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.876158     Document Type: Article

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