Photonic ROM architecture enables high-speed, reconfigurable lookup tables for accelerators

Researchers have developed OptiLookUp, a novel photonic architecture that utilizes integrated microring resonators to create a reconfigurable optical read-only memory (ROM). This system encodes input-output mappings directly into the spectral response of photonic devices, enabling high-speed, low-latency data access. The design incorporates banked sub-arrays and optical decoding for scalability and uses transistor-based selectors for reconfigurability, achieving data rates up to 12.5 GHz. OptiLookUp is intended to implement nonlinear activation functions for photonic accelerator architectures. AI

影响 Potential to accelerate AI computations through specialized photonic hardware for activation functions.

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