Fabrication and testing of AMOEBA: an opto-electronic switch for multiprocessor networking

We present a novel application of opto-electronic/VLSI technology to the AMOEBA switch: an Asynchronous Multiprocessor Opto-Electronic Bit-sliced Array switch. The AMOEBA switch is intended to function as a high-performance single-chip central switch on a data network serving multiple processors or computers. The purpose of the opto-electronic/VLSI chip is to provide byte-wide, switched optical interconnection at the processor clock rate.