Papers Published

1. Chang, Jae J. and Jung, Sungyong and Vrazel, Michael and Jung, Keeshik and Lee, Myunghee and Brooke, Martin A. and Jokerst, Nan M. and Wills, Scott, Hybrid optically interconnected microprocessor: An InP I-MSM integrated onto a mixed signal CMOS analog optical receiver with a digital CMOS microprocessor, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 4089 (2000), pp. 708 - 714 [12.386893] .
   (last updated on 2007/04/16)

   Abstract:
   This paper presents the results of simultaneously working fully-differential optoelectronic (OE) receiver fabricated in Si CMOS with digital SIMD microprocessor on the same die next to analog, optical interface circuitry, the receiver have been hybrid integrated with a thin film InP-based inverted (I)-MSM photodetector and optically tested using external light source modulated by digital input signal. The noise immunity to mixed-signal digital switching noise of the differential receiver has been shown to be good enough to generate 10^-9 BER.

   Keywords:
   Microprocessor chips;Optical interconnects;CMOS integrated circuits;Semiconducting indium phosphide;Semiconducting silicon;Photodetectors;Light modulation;Spurious signal noise;Bit error rate;