Objective The objective of the OMI/HIC project is to provide low-cost, high-performance serial interconnect for the OMI. It will develop technologies to provide a range of cost/performance tradeoffs within a common protocol framework, at moderate distance scales, ie chip-to-chip, board-to-board, rack-to-rack and room-to-room. Target performance levels are 200 Mbaud, 700 Mbaud to 1 Gbaud, and 2-3 Gbaud. The design of a higher speed digital signal (DS) link is nearly complete. Prototype complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) driver and receiver circuits for optical interconnect are being tested. A CMOS chip has been developed to provide a parallel interface to a 1 Gbaud serial link, with built in support for the lower levels of the protocol stack. A test chip has demonstrated feasibility of 3 GBaud in a bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS) device. A design study for a high-performance routing chip with advanced features has been done. A book has been published about DS-Links and their applications, and the protocols developed within the project are the basis for a draft IEEE standard, p1355.The project aims to: - double the performance of INMOS DS-Links to 200 Mbaud, and provide drivers/receivers for fibre optic interconnect at these speeds (using an encoding developed in the GPMIMD project) - develop 1 Gbaud serial link technology, implemented in 0.5 micron CMOS, with protocols conforming to the OMI high-level interconnect standard - evaluate BiCMOS as a technology for 2-3 Gbaud serial links on copper media and provide drivers/receivers for fibre optic interconnect at 1 Gbaud - provide macrocells supporting the serial link technologies to the ELI library standards - develop routing and interfacing chips based on serial link technology - demonstrate use of the serial links on at least two different processor architectures - demonstrate use of the serial links as a transport mechanism for SCI (IEEE 1596) protocols. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryinorganic compoundsnatural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssemiconductivitynatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsfibre optics Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Inmos Ltd Address 1,000 aztec west BS12 4SQ Almondsbury United Kingdom See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Bull Italia SpA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via dei laboratori olivetti 79 20010 Pregnana milanese milano See on map Bull SA France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Tour bull 1 place carpeaux puteaux 92039 Paris la défense See on map DOLPHIN SERVER TECHNOLOGY Norway EU contribution € 0,00 Address Olaf helsets vei, 652 0621 Oslo See on map THOMSON CSF SINTRA-ASM France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 525 route des dolines 06561 Valbonne See on map Thomson CSF France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 51 esplanade du général de gaulle 92045 Paris la défense See on map Université de Paris VI (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 4 place jussieu 75005 Paris See on map
