An Optically Reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Array

摘要

We have developed an optically reconfigurable field programmable gate array (OFPGA). The OFPGA integrated circuit is designed for high-speed configuration in systems based on a reconfigurable computing paradigm. In these environments, the computation resources provided by the FPGA re-used in multiple configurations throughout a single application program. Example applications are image and signal processing, data compression and database operations. In these applications, the same FPGA could be used to perform floating-point operations, histogramming, and query processing.