Optical Backplanes for High Performance Computers

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Optical Backplanes for High Performance Computers
Sponsor Unisys Corporation
Mentors John Kull Matthew Nowak Paul Stuverud
Group 4 Members Kenneth Chang Jason Harris John
Kwok
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Current Electrical System Latency Specs
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Sample of Latency comparison Specifications Sheet
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Necessary Attenuation Tolerance for Optical
Transceiver

• Attenuation from Each Optical Coupler lt 0.5 dB
• (Molex MPT 86081-3030 Multimode Optical
  Connector)
• x 2 Couplers/path max 1dB
• Attenuation from 1x16 Fiber Optic Splitter lt
  15.0 dB
• (APA Planar 1x16 Splitter w/ Multimode Fiber)
• TOTAL ATTENUATION TOLERANCE NEEDED
• gt 16.0 dB

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Gantt Chart