Timothy M. PINKSTON

SMART Interconnects Group, EE-Systems Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2562 USA

(Received May 9, 1996; Accepted July 16, 1996)

This paper presents a hybrid CMOS-SEED multiprocessor network interface smart pixel design that implements a reservation-based channel control protocol for collisionless concurrent access to multiple optical interprocessor communication channels. An asynchronous optical token is used as the arbitration mechanism for reservation control instead of slotted access. This work demonstrates that complex network protocol functions can be implemented using optoelectronic smart pixel technology.

Key words : optoelectronic smart pixels, optical interconnects, multichannel access control protocol