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Odis achieves milestone in GaAs POET technology
A breakthrough in gallium arsenide technology should enable Odis to take the first step in realising a single device capable of interconnecting multiple processors
Opel Technologies Inc. and Odis Inc., collectively known as "Opel", have made progress this quarter regarding POET technology to advance optical interconnection of high speed circuits.
Odis' recent achievements, when successfully added to the POET platform under development, will make it possible to implement an optical interface as a single chip to connect existing CMOS processors.
The ongoing steps in the POET technology development have made it possible to produce a well defined military and commercial roadmap for POET.
ODIS's optical interface chip will integrate a laser, optical modulator, modulator driver, detector, receiver amplifiers, SerDes, CDR and PLL circuits monolithically on a single chip. Opel says this breakthrough, utilising III-V GaAs technology, is the first step in achieving a single device capable of interconnecting multiple processors by waveguide and/or fibre to transport ultra-high speed signals.
This development should substantially simplify chip packaging.
What's more, the optical interface chip bandwidth supports large data rates of greater than 100Gb/s for CMOS processor interconnects without the additional power otherwise required with conventional electrical i/o (input/output).
The new roadmap will outline the process for speed-to-market devices, capital requirements and monetisation opportunities in the commercial and defence technology markets.
