| Title: | MILITARY AND AEROSPACE FIBER OPTICS |
| Price: | $196.00 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 12, 2008 |
| Source: | INFORMATION GATEKEEPERS NEWSLETTERS |
| Brief Excerpt: | ...The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has commissioned Sun Microsystems to develop a microprocessor interconnect that will transmit data by light pulses rather than electrical currents, the company announced. DARPA s Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) program awarded the contract, which will run $##.## million over five-and-a-half years. The program is about bringing optics much deeper into the interconnect hierarchy inside a computer. Right now, there s a lot of optical interconnects at the periphery of the system and to connect between boxes and between racks of servers. But really, the optical technologies have not penetrated inside the box, said Ashok Krishnamoorthy, an engineer at the Sun Microelectronics Group, in a podcast. Silicon-based optical interconnects promise higher bandwidth and lower latency than today s electrical interconnects, which means data can be moved on and off microprocessors, or among multiple processors on the same circuit... |
| Length: | 16 Pages
(14 Billable Pages)
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| Geographic Region: | MULTINATIONAL |
| Industry: | TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
| Non-Billable Page Numbers: | 15;16 |
| Format: | 
Adobe Acrobat
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