Optical Compute Engine Packaging for High-Rate Low-Power Data Links
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in achieving high data rate processing and transmission/reception with compact packaging, high power consumption, and heat dissipation, particularly in optical communication techniques like Ring Modulator and Mach-Zehnder modulators, which are costly and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
An optics-based compute system with a first and second base layer, position pointers, electronic and optical engines, and power couplers, connected via gold bumps and preforms, utilizing non-linear electrical connections for efficient data transmission and reception, reducing power consumption and heat dissipation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional complex hardware design is used for high data rate processing, then data processing capability is improved, but power consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional electrical signal processing with optical signal processing. Optical engines use light instead of electrical signals to transmit and process data, which reduces resistance and energy loss, thereby achieving high data processing capability with lower power consumption compared to conventional electrical hardware systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of signal transmission from electrical to optical domain. By using optical engines that operate with light signals instead of electrical signals, the system achieves higher data rates while consuming less power, as optical transmission has lower energy loss and can operate at higher frequencies without the resistive heating problems of electrical conductors.
2Productivity
If traditional electrical communication techniques are used, then data transmission is achieved, but heat dissipation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent substitutes electrical communication mechanisms with optical communication mechanisms. Optical engines transmit data using light signals through optical channels, eliminating the resistive heating that occurs in electrical conductors. This substitution dramatically reduces heat dissipation while maintaining or improving data transmission capability.
3Productivity
If Ring Modulator and Mach-Zehnder modulator techniques are used for optical communication, then data transmission capability is improved, but packaging complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and eliminates the complex modulation components (Ring Modulators and Mach-Zehnder modulators) from the optical communication system. Instead of using these complicated modulation techniques, the invention employs a simplified optical engine design that achieves data transmission without requiring these complex packaged components, thereby reducing packaging complexity while maintaining transmission capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces expensive and complex modulation components with simpler, more cost-effective optical engine components. The simplified design uses readily available materials and manufacturing processes, reducing both the complexity of packaging and the overall system cost compared to systems using Ring Modulators or Mach-Zehnder modulators.
4Productivity
If higher integration is implemented in electronic packaging, then system capacity is improved, but thermo mechanical reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces densely packed electrical components with optical components that have fundamentally different thermal and mechanical properties. Optical engines generate less heat and are less susceptible to thermal expansion issues, allowing for higher integration densities without compromising thermo-mechanical reliability. The optical channels can be routed through the substrate without the same thermal constraints that limit electrical interconnects.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system enables high data rate processing and transmission/reception with compact packaging, lower power consumption, and effective heat dissipation at a lower cost, enhancing data processing and communication efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
the first optical engine is connected with the first base layer, at a second position, via a second preform which enables to generate at least one optical signal
Implementation Method 2
the first electronic engine is connected with the first base layer, at a first position, via a first plurality of gold bumps
Implementation Method 3
each of the first plurality of the power couplers is connected with the first base layer, across the first electronic engine, via a first preform to provide effective power for the first electronic engine
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AI summary
Provided are systems and methods for enabling an optics based compute system associated with transmission and reception for data processing and communication which solve the problem of computation coupled with transmission and/or reception associated with high data rate application with significant accuracy and at a low power consumption. The disclosed systems and methods complements higher data rate processing supported with higher data rate transmission and/or reception with compact packaging, lower power consumption, heat dissipation, available at low cost. This is achieved by using efficient design, packaging, and coupling of an electronic engine, and an optical engine, using a plurality of fiducials, substrate, and power couplers. Optical signal is transmitted from a first system and transmitted optical signal is received by a second system.