Cellular interconnects optimization algorithm for optoelectronic single-instruction multiple data

Abstract

We present a novel algorithm for designing optimal cellular interconnects (OCI’s), which can significantly accelerate the communications among processors in single-instruction multiple-data machines with optoelectronic interconnections. We present the foundations of the OCI architecture and show that the optoelectronic OCI is the optimal topology for a space-invariant interconnect pattern. The OCI is optimal in achieving a minimum number of clock cycles per data shift for a given number of optoelectronic links. In addition, our algorithm for designing the OCI is deterministic, whereas previous designs required a trial-and-error procedure.

© 1998 Optical Society of America

Time multiplexing and control for optical cellular-hypercube arrays

C. B. Kuznia and A. A. Sawchuk
Appl. Opt. 35(11) 1836-1847 (1996)

Demonstration and architectural analysis of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor/multiple-quantum-well smart-pixel array cellular logic processors for single-instruction multiple-data parallel-pipeline processing

Jen-Ming Wu, Charles B. Kuznia, Bogdan Hoanca, Chih-Hao Chen, and Alexander A. Sawchuk
Appl. Opt. 38(11) 2270-2281 (1999)

Nested crossbar connection networks for optically interconnected processor arrays for vector–matrix multiplication

Michael R. Feldman and Clark C. Guest
Appl. Opt. 29(8) 1068-1076 (1990)

Experimental demonstration of the optical multi-mesh hypercube: scaleable interconnection network for multiprocessors and multicomputers

Ahmed Louri, Stephen Furlonge, and Costas Neocleous
Appl. Opt. 35(35) 6909-6919 (1996)

Optical interconnect for a ring array of single-instruction–multiple-data processors

Yao Li, Ting Wang, and Berlin Ha
Opt. Lett. 16(5) 279-281 (1991)