An optically differential reconfigurable gate array with a partial reconfiguration optical system and its power consumption estimation

This paper proposes an optically differential reconfigurable gate array (ODRGA) with a partial reconfiguration optical system. The ODRGA not only realizes a partial reconfiguration capability; it also reduces the amount of memory required to store reconfiguration contexts while reducing optical reconfiguration power consumption. This paper presents ODRGA-VLSI, which is available for a partial reconfiguration technique. Advantages of reducing the amount of memory and power consumption are estimated theoretically and compared with a conventional optically reconfigurable gate array.

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