TY - JOUR
T1 - Microelectromechanical configuration of an optically reconfigurable gate array
AU - Morita, Hironobu
AU - Watanabe, Minoru
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 28, 2009; revised February 16, 2010; accepted March 22, 2010. Date of current version July 23, 2010. This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, under Grant 20 200 027, in 2009. The VLSI chip in this paper was fabricated in the chip fabrication program of VLSI Design and Education Center, the University of Tokyo, in collaboration with Rohm Corporation, Ltd. and Toppan Printing Corporation, Ltd. This paper was recommended by Associate Editor B. L. Anderson.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper presents a proposal of a novel optically reconfigurable gate array architecture with a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror array that allows high-speed reconfiguration by exploiting large-bandwidth optical connections between the MEMS mirror array and a programmable gate array. The MEMS mirror array is used as a holographic memory. Four configuration contexts can be programmed electrically and dynamically onto the MEMS mirror array as holographic memory information. The configuration procedure is executed by switching both a laser array and an MEMS mirror array. This experiment demonstrated a four-context 146 ns microelectromechanical configuration for a programmable gate array. Sub-microsecond configuration is attainable.
AB - This paper presents a proposal of a novel optically reconfigurable gate array architecture with a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror array that allows high-speed reconfiguration by exploiting large-bandwidth optical connections between the MEMS mirror array and a programmable gate array. The MEMS mirror array is used as a holographic memory. Four configuration contexts can be programmed electrically and dynamically onto the MEMS mirror array as holographic memory information. The configuration procedure is executed by switching both a laser array and an MEMS mirror array. This experiment demonstrated a four-context 146 ns microelectromechanical configuration for a programmable gate array. Sub-microsecond configuration is attainable.
KW - Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)
KW - microelectromechanical system (MEMS)
KW - optical interconnections
KW - optical logic devices
KW - optoelectronic devices
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U2 - 10.1109/JQE.2010.2047378
DO - 10.1109/JQE.2010.2047378
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77955165797
SN - 0018-9197
VL - 46
SP - 1288
EP - 1294
JO - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
JF - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
IS - 9
M1 - 5518515
ER -