Mark Zwoliński, C. Garagate, Ž. Mrčarica, Tom J. Kaźmierski, A.D. Brown,
... signal simulation has been performed using a simulation backplane. This work is based on the draft standard for a simulation backplane, published by the CAD framework initiative. The simulation backplane allows two or more circuit, logic or behavioural ... connecting the simulators may be passed through the backplane. Synchronisation of the various simulators is handled by the backplane, and the paper describes a new synchronisation algorithm ... version of SPICE has been integrated into the backplane, and true mixed signal simulation has been demonstrated. ...
Tópico(s): Embedded Systems Design Techniques
1995 - | IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques
IEEE Xplore
Shuailong Yang, Liu Yang, Bin Li, Fengguang Luo, Xiaobo Wang, Yuting Du,
... a high-speed, large-capacity and compact optical backplane architecture for high-performance computers (HPC) is proposed ... performance of 8 channels for the optical waveguide backplane. In the entire optical backplane, the averaged insertion loss of optical backplane with 50 μm input fiber is 1.62 ... is demonstrated by off-line experiment. The optical backplane network can achieve 15 G data error-free ... 8 channels parallel signal transmission. In the optical backplane, the 10 Gbit / s data generated / processed by ...
Tópico(s): Optical Network Technologies
2020 - Optica Publishing Group | Optics Express
Ronen Rachmani, Arkadi Zilberman, Shlomi Arnon,
... have been increasing demands for high data-rate backplanes for enhanced performance in computers. The present technology of electronic backplanes cannot meet the required data-rate demands for ... link, such as would be found in computer backplane communication, and conduct experiments to validate the model. ... is the indication that the performance of the backplane deteriorates even for very small values of air ... extremely low BER performance is required at the backplane (e.g., from 10 -14 to 10 - 18 ). ... important for the design of future-generation optical backplanes. It is noted that operation at wavelengths around ...
Tópico(s): Advanced optical system design
2011 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Journal of Lightwave Technology
Ji Hun Choi, Jae‐Eun Pi, Chi‐Young Hwang, Jong‐Heon Yang, Yong‐Hae Kim, Gi Heon Kim, Hee‐Ok Kim, Kyunghee Choi, Jinwoong Kim, Chi‐Sun Hwang,
... the world-smallest 3-μm-pixel-pitch holographic backplane based on the spatial light modulator technology. This ... study, we fabricated SLM on glass (SLMoG) holographic backplanes with various pixel pitches ranging from 20 μm ... substrate is shown in Figure 3. The holographic backplane for the active matrix addressing of the SLM ... panel For a 20-μm-pixel-pitch holographic backplane, the inverted-staggered BCE configuration with a channel ... diluted solution was used as the developer. After backplane fabrication, the panel, including the switching TFTs, was ...
Tópico(s): Thin-Film Transistor Technologies
2019 - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute | ETRI Journal
Richard Pitwon, Ken Hopkins, Kai Wang, David R. Selviah, Hadi Baghsiahi, Bert Jan Offrein, R. Dangel, Folkert Horst, Markus Halter, Max Gmür,
... design, implementation and characterisation of an electro-optical backplane and an active pluggable optical connector technology are ... mate and unmate from a passive electro-optical backplane with embedded polymeric waveguides. The active connectors incorporate ... to assess the viability of embedded electro-optical backplane technology in dense data storage systems. The electro-optical backplane is comprised of both copper layers and one ... precision assembly of the optical receptacles on the backplane. The in-plane connector interface is based on ...
Tópico(s): Advanced optical system design
2010 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Keun Byoung Yoon, I.-K. Cho, S.H. Ahn, Myung Yung Jeong, D.J. Lee, Young Un Heo, B.S. Rho, Hyung‐Ho Park, Byoung Ho Rhee,
As discussed in this paper, a practical optical backplane system was demonstrated, using a waveguide-embedded optical backplane board, processing boards, and optical slots for board- ... optical properties of the waveguide in an optical backplane board were unchanged after lamination. As connection components between transmitter/receiver processing boards and an optical backplane board, optical slots were used for easy and ... between the transmitter processing board and the optical backplane board.
Tópico(s): Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques
2004 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Journal of Lightwave Technology
N. Bamiedakis, A. Hashim, Richard V. Penty, I.H. White,
... constitute a promising technology for high-capacity optical backplanes as they can be cost-effectively integrated onto ... boards (PCBs). This paper presents the first optical backplane demonstrator based on the use of PCB-integrated ... waveguides and a regenerative shared bus architecture. The backplane demonstrator is formed with commercially-available low-cost ... of the different parts of this optical bus backplane are presented and related optical and data transmission ... out of the on-board polymer waveguides. The backplane demonstrator achieves error-free (BER <; 10 -12 ) 10 ...
Tópico(s): Optical Network Technologies
2014 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Journal of Lightwave Technology
S. Hiramatsu, Kiyotaka Miura, Kazuyuki Hirao,
Novel compact optical backplane connectors with 2-D arranged inputs/outputs (I/Os) are demonstrated. To meet the requirement of higher integration in an optical backplane system, we applied 3-D waveguide arrays with ... were, respectively, fabricated. In the assembly of the backplane connector, waveguide arrays were actively aligned and combined ... and then, the submounts were fixed to the backplane-connector housing. To ensure efficient coupling to the ... connectors were applied to the interface of the backplane connector. Using MD connectors with multichannel I/Os, ...
Tópico(s): Optical Network Technologies
2007 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Journal of Lightwave Technology
Gregory B. Raupp, Shawn M. O’Rourke, Curt Moyer, Barry O’Brien, Scott Ageno, Douglas E. Loy, Edward J. Bawolek, David R. Allee, Sameer M. Venugopal, J. Kaminski, Dirk Bottesch, Jeff Dailey, Ke Long, Michael Marrs, Nick R. Munizza, Hanna M. Haverinen, N. Colaneri,
... silicon (a‐Si:H) thin‐film‐transistor (TFT) backplane technology for high‐information‐content flexible displays has been developed. Backplanes were integrated with frontplane technologies to produce high‐ ... and emissive OLED flexible‐display technology demonstrators (TDs). Backplanes up to 4 in. on the diagonal have ... line. The critical steps in the evolution of backplane technology, from qualification of baseline low‐temperature (180° ...
Tópico(s): Electrical and Thermal Properties of Materials
2007 - Wiley | Journal of the Society for Information Display
Steffen Uhlig, Mats Robertsson,
... recent literature on the discussion on high-speed backplanes with optical, electrical, and mixed solutions, as well ... realistic high-speed optical polymer-waveguide links on backplanes showed that signal amplification is necessary to boost ... device can be flip-chip mounted on the backplane to compensate for optical losses due to signal ... in waveguide routing on high-density interconnects for backplanes. The hybrid concept design guarantees compatibility with the ...
Tópico(s): Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
2006 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Journal of Lightwave Technology
J.H. Sinsky, Marcus Duelk, A. Adamiecki,
High-speed electrical data transmission through low-cost backplanes is a particularly challenging problem. We present for ... for the phase and amplitude response of the backplane such that the resulting frequency response of the ... ideal duobinary filter. At the output of the backplane, we use an innovative pseudodigital circuit to convert ... bit error rate <10/sup -13/ through electrical backplane traces up to 34 in in length on ...
Tópico(s): Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
2005 - IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society | IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
In‐Kui Cho, Keun Byoung Yoon, Seung Ho Ahn, Hee-Kyung Sung, Sang won Ha, Young Un Heo, Hyo‐Hoon Park,
A practical optical backplane system was prepared with transmitter-receiver processing boards and an optical backplane made from polymeric-waveguide-embedded optical printed-circuit ... between the transmitter-receiver processing boards and the backplane board to permit easy and repeatable insertion and ... 10 Gbit/s data transmission between an optical backplane and the transmitter-receiver processing boards.
Tópico(s): Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
2005 - Optica Publishing Group | Optics Letters
G. Kim, Xuliang Han, R.T. Chen,
... describe the characteristics of a microchannel-based optical backplane including signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), interconnect distances, and data transfer rates. The backplane employs 250 /spl mu/m-spacing two-dimensional ( ... deflector/beam-splitter for the guided-wave optical backplane, the result demonstrates a multibus line architecture and ... The total data transfer rate of the developed backplane has shown 8 Gb/s from eye diagram ...
Tópico(s): Optical Network Technologies
2000 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Journal of Lightwave Technology
Srikanth Natarajan, Chnunhe Zhao, R.T. Chen,
... report for the first time a bidirectional optical backplane bus for a high performance system containing nine ... operating at 632.8 and 1300 nm. The backplane bus reported here employs arrays of multiplexed polymer- ... and an optimum design rule is provided. The backplane bus demonstrated, is for general-purpose and therefore ... Futurebus and FASTBUS, and can function as a backplane bus in existing computing environments. >
Tópico(s): Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
1995 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Journal of Lightwave Technology
K. Li, A.M. Tassoudji, S.Y. Poh, Michael Tsuk, R.T. Shin, J. A. Kong,
The electromagnetic radiation from a modules-on-backplane configuration found in computers is analyzed by means of the finite-difference time-domain (FD-TD) technique. The issues pertaining to the effects ... Analyses are facilitated by using simplified modules-on-backplane models and by using a voltage source as ... at a connector between a module and the backplane. The potential for enhancement of spurious emissions by the module-on-backplane configuration is demonstrated. For modules of typical dimensions, ...
Tópico(s): Electromagnetic Compatibility and Measurements
1995 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility
The concept of a three-dimensionally interconnected optical backplane for a high-performance system containing multichip module boards, operating at 850 nm, is introduced. The backplane reported here employs 2-D vertical-cavity surface- ... VC- SELs, microlenses, and photodetector arrays into our backplane design, we have demonstrated a multi-bus-line optical backplane and experi- mentally realized this architecture with 2- ...
Tópico(s): Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
1999 - SPIE | Optical Engineering
Jae Gwang Um, Duk Young Jeong, Younghun Jung, Joon Kwon Moon, Yeon Hong Jung, Seonock Kim, Sung Hwan Kim, Jeong Soo Lee, Jin Jang,
... LED onto the oxide thin‐film transistor (TFT) backplane using flip chip bonding is reported. A blue‐ ... 25 V dec −1 , is used for LED backplane. A two TFT and one capacitance pixel structure ... chips with 49 152 pixels onto the TFT backplane, demonstrating a 2 in. AMLED display with a ... 630 Cd m −2 . Therefore, a‐IGZO TFT backplane can be used for µ‐LED displays.
Tópico(s): Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
2018 - Wiley | Advanced Electronic Materials
Rong Yuan, Haiqing Li, Qingyuan Wang,
In high-speed interconnect systems, high-speed backplane connectors are widely utilized. Its mechanical reliability is related to the stability of entire application systems directly. Insertion–extraction force and fatigue characteristics ... factors that affect the reliability of high-speed backplane connectors. To enhance the reliability of high-speed backplane connectors, in this study, a single CAD/CAE ... optimization, and fatigue life prediction of high-speed backplane connector.
Tópico(s): Electronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies
2019 - SAGE Publishing | Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Julian P. G. Bristow, Yue Liu, Terry Marta, Sommy Bounnak, Klein Johnson, Yung-Sheng Liu, H. S. Cole,
Optical backplanes are of increasing interest for commercial and military avionic processors, and for commercial supercomputers. Projected interconnection density ... the commercial development of optoelectronic interconnect components for backplane-based systems is the small market for such ... that a cost effective solution is available for backplane based systems, commonality with a higher volume application ... and connectors have been demonstrated for board-to-backplane and board-to-multichip module applications, and offer ...
Tópico(s): Engineering and Test Systems
1995 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Kaisa E. Lilja, Tomas Bäcklund, Donald Lupo, Juhani Virtanen, Esa Hämäläinen, Timo Joutsenoja,
An organic matrix diode backplane for driving an electrophoretic display with an unpatterned front plane electrode is reported. Using thin film diodes instead of transistors ... the active components in the pixels enable the backplane to be manufactured using roll-to-roll compatible printing processes. The backplane functionality is demonstrated in an electrophoretic display using ... by laminating the front plane material onto the backplane.
Tópico(s): Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies
2010 - Elsevier BV | Thin Solid Films
Alex Z. Kattamis, I‐Chun Cheng, Ke Long, Bahman Hekmatshoar, Kunigunde H. Cherenack, S. Wagner, James C. Sturm, Sameer M. Venugopal, Douglas E. Loy, Shawn M. O’Rourke, David R. Allee,
The transition of thin-film transistor (TFT) backplanes from rigid plate glass to flexible substrates requires the development of a generic TFT backplane technology on a clear plastic substrate. To be ... high temperatures. We fabricated a-Si:H TFT backplanes on a clear plastic substrate at 200degC. The ... 32 arrays of pixels. The operation of the backplane is demonstrated with an electrophoretic display. This result ...
Tópico(s): Photonic Crystals and Applications
2007 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Journal of Display Technology
Ted H. Szymanski, H.S. Hinton,
... of a dynamically reconfigurableIntelligent Optical Backplaneis described. The backplane consists of a large number of parallel optical ... all-optical and passive optical systems, the proposed backplane is intelligent and can support communication primitives used ... control, buffering, shared memory caching, and synchronization. The backplane is also manufacturable using existing optoelectronic technologies. A second generation backplane supporting a distributed shared memory multi-processor is ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Optical Network Technologies
1998 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Junyuan Zhang, Jiale Chen, Zhongyu Li, Mengxue Ji, Tao Sang,
... It is now applied to the composite seat backplane structure design, and combined with the CFRP moulding ... the energy absorption characteristics of the car seat backplane to initially design the CFRP seat backplane material and structure. At the same time, considering ... and structure of the CFRP passenger car seat backplane. The new CFRP passenger car seat achieves significant ...
Tópico(s): Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites
2020 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Crashworthiness
Jonathan W. Arenberg, Larry Gilman, Nick Abbruzze, Justin Reuter, Kristen G. Anderson, Jas Jahic, Joseph H. Yacoub, Hector Padilla, Charles Atkinson, Dave Moon, Kevin Patton, Patty May, Jim York, Ted Messer, Stan Backovsky, Jim Tucker, Chris Harvey, Marcel Bluth, Bente Eegholm, Barbara Zukowski, Babak Saif, Ritva Keski-Kuha, Peter Blake, Jeff Kegley, Kevin Russell,
... of magnitude of the expected motions of the backplane due to thermal distortion and the high level ... processes increases the technology readiness level of the backplane to required levels. To develop this critical technology, the Backplane Stability Test Article (BSTA) was added to the ... is a representative substructure for the full flight backplane, manufactured using the same resources, materials and processes. ...
Tópico(s): Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation
2006 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Ted H. Szymanski, Victor Tyan,
The design of a free-space optical backplane which supports error and flow control functions is described. Traditionally, these functions are implemented in custom high-speed electronic application specific integrated circuits, ... into the optoelectronic layer, yielding an "intelligent optical backplane." Conventional error control protocols are infeasible with optical backplanes since they require excessive amounts of hardware. The ... indicates that using 2004 technology, a free-space backplane can potentially be clocked at 1 GHz and ...
Tópico(s): Interconnection Networks and Systems
1999 - IEEE Photonics Society | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics