GHz RF DACs and ADCs for High-Bandwidth Silicon Photonic CNN Accelerators
Silicon photonic accelerators offer high parallelism but face I/O bottlenecks. This paper presents 16-channel RF DACs/ADCs at 1.966 GSps on RFSoC-FPGA for driving a photonic accelerator. The system achieved 71.95 dB SNR, 11.66 ENOB, 81.11 dB SFDR, and 1 GHz image processing, improving optical computing.
Authors
- Elham Heidari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2966-2799)
- Hamed Dalir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9998-3830)
- Salem Altaleb
- Volker J. Sorger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5152-4766)
- Hangbo Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4067-6000)
Institutions
- University of Florida (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-08-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/rapid64712.2025.11151396
- Primary Topic
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00