Abstract

This poster will present experimental measurements of the performance of a misalignment tolerant receiver array which we have had fabricated and which is currently being tested. It consists of a 2-D array of CMOS detectors and receivers with each cell linked to its nearest neighbours in 8 directions. Data re-routing is accomplished using information from receivers at the edge of the array. It implements ‘virtual alignment’ which proposes that: “Just as optics may help relax some of the limitations confronting electrical interconnections within microelectronic systems, so also may microelectronics help relax the limitations which would confront purely optical solutions to the interconnect problem"[1].

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