Lenslet Shows Off Optical DSP

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Lenslet Labs, Ltd. today unveiled thearchitecture of the world's first commercial reconfigurable Optically-based Digital Signal Processing Engine (ODSPE), at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, CA.The ODSPE boosts the performance of digital signal processing, setting newperformance levels of Tera (one trillion, or 10 to the power of 12)operations per second, in a single component.The core of the ODSPE is based on an optical architecture, which performsVector-Matrix Multiplication (VMM) in a single machine cycle. Theprogrammable optical core provides on-the-fly reconfigurability, meeting themarket demand for functional flexibility."Lenslet's ODSPE has turned the optical signal processing concept into acommercial reality," said Aviram Sariel, Founder and Chief Executive Officerof Lenslet Labs. "Since the ODSPE technology announcement, last October, wehave been inundated with calls from interested high-tech companies. Today'sarchitecture announcement is the second milestone on our product roadmap."The first product based on Lenslet’s ODSPE technology will be Enlight256. Itwill be a general-purpose, off-the-shelf, reconfigurable, optical transformengine that uses VMM architecture.Lenslet Labs Ltd.