An Optoelectronic Graphics Display Processor

The first three months of this grant period have seen significant progress toward the project goals. A one bit optoelectronic counter has been constructed as a prototypical of an optoelectronic control unit. The counter runs at 305 MHz, and provided us much information on the timing and synchronization of such processor We are beginning our work on developing or acquiring the optoelectronic integrated circuits and holographic optical elements that are necessary to the development of the optoelectronic graphic display processor, OGDP. We have also begun work on a CAD system for designing and constructing such processors. The CAD efforts have begun with development of algorithms for computing bit error rate in these systems We are also in the midst of developing the logical architecture for the OGDP, including control unit and front end processor design.