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Optical Interconnections

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Wafer-Level Integrated Systems

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Chapter 2 reviewed several limits imposed by electrical connections on the performance of systems. Given the severity of several of those limits, it is natural to consider alternative approaches to provide communications within a high-performance system. Optical interconnects have received considerable attention [1] – [11]. Already, optical networks are being developed for local area networks to provide high performance networking between computers. Even within a single computing machine, optical communication has been investigated for communications between circuit boards. While optical interconnections are increasingly being used for longer length communications applications, connections between neighboring electronic gates on an IC obviously will remain electrical. The main question is not whether optical communications will be used within a computing machine but instead how deeply such optical techniques will penetrate into the interconnection hierarchy.

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