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Methods for Reducing Power and Area of BDD-Based Optical Logic Circuits
Ryosuke MATSUO Jun SHIOMI Tohru ISHIHARA Hidetoshi ONODERA Akihiko SHINYA Masaya NOTOMI
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Vol.E102-A
No.12
pp.1751-1759 Publication Date: 2019/12/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E102.A.1751 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms) Category: Keyword: binary decision diagram, logic circuit, optical circuit,
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Summary:
Optical circuits using nanophotonic devices attract significant interest due to its ultra-high speed operation. As a consequence, the synthesis methods for the optical circuits also attract increasing attention. However, existing methods for synthesizing optical circuits mostly rely on straight-forward mappings from established data structures such as Binary Decision Diagram (BDD). The strategy of simply mapping a BDD to an optical circuit sometimes results in an explosion of size and involves significant power losses in branches and optical devices. To address these issues, this paper proposes a method for reducing the size of BDD-based optical logic circuits exploiting wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). The paper also proposes a method for reducing the number of branches in a BDD-based circuit, which reduces the power dissipation in laser sources. Experimental results obtained using a partial product accumulation circuit used in a 4-bit parallel multiplier demonstrates significant advantages of our method over existing approaches in terms of area and power consumption.
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