Abstract

This paper will present an architecture for a reconfigurable optical backplane where the communications capacity (the number of parallel connections) between processing elements or switching nodes located on the supported printed circuit boards is dynamically reconfigurable. The dynamic reconfiguration will be controlled by a time-multiplexed two-dimensional (2-D) token that will traverse the ring-based HyperPlane.^[1,2] This improvment in smart pixel intelligence will significantly enhance performance for moderately and lightly loaded systems.

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