Abstract

A novel optical interconnect scheme for a ring of single-instruction–multiple-data processing elements is proposed. This unexplored optical interconnect topology promises several important advantages over the conventional rectangular array topology, such as the use of space-invariant elements and identical interconnect latency for implementation.

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