title: Development of a multitechnology field-programmable gate array suitable for photonic information processing.
abstract: The architecture of a novel, multitechnology field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is introduced. Based on conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor VLSI technology this architecture has demonstrated the feasibility of reconfigurable and programmable hardware for prototyping photonic information processing systems. We report that this new FPGA architecture will enable the design of reconfigurable systems that incorporated technologies outside the traditional electronic domain. The smart photoreceivers monolithically integrated in the new FPGA architecture can receive optically encoded signals in parallel and process them with user programmable logic hardware.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210030, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0030, USA.
authors.forename: Prosenjit
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mal
authors.forename: Jason F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Cantin
authors.forename: Fred R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Beyette