Fast reconfiguration experiments of an optically differential reconfigurable gate array with nine configuration contexts

Optically differential reconfigurable gate arrays (ODRGAs) have been developed to achieve rapid reconfiguration and numerous reconfiguration contexts. Although fast reconfiguration experiments of a four-context ODRGA have been presented in earlier reports, the number of configuration contexts was insufficient for dynamic reconfiguration applications. Therefore, we have developed a more advanced nine-context ODRGA system. This paper presents fast 86.2 ns reconfiguration experiments using a nine-context ODRGA architecture and discusses plans for future work.