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Optoelectronic interconnects are one means of alleviating the ever growing communications bottlenecks associated with silicon electronics. In chip-to-chip and board-to-board interconnection, the bandwidths presently (if experimentally) available far outstrip what is predicted possible in electronics until into the next decade. Such high bandwidth possibilities demand a rethink of conventional computer architectures where bandwidth is always at a premium. The combination of dynamic reconfiguration in electronics with this new technology may enable a new generation of architectures.
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Symington, K.J., Snowdon, J.F., Schroeder, H. (1999). High Bandwidth Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures Using Optical Interconnects. In: Lysaght, P., Irvine, J., Hartenstein, R. (eds) Field Programmable Logic and Applications. FPL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1673. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48302-1_46
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