🎉Welcome to the FIONA Hardware repository!
🎯This sub-project is an integral part of the FIONA-Toolchain and aims to provide a convenient and efficient solution for researchers to set up their real photonic computing systems. In this repository, we offer a rapid prototyping template specifically designed to facilitate the establishment of your testing environment, which includes:
- Mother Board: It provides proper driven power, the signal bus towards slots of DAC and ADC arrays, and the IO pins for all the peripheral communications.
- DA Card: Therre are 10 DAC slots on the Mother Board. Each slot can hold one DA Card. Each card has 32 output channels in a form of FPC connectors.
- Interfacing/Test Board: For wire bonding with the photonic chip or cross-connector conversion for testing. It also serves DAC-ADC loopback test.
🛠️Since it is primarily designed for academic use, we have designed all electronic modules to be decoupled from each other, allowing for painless customization:
- Cross-module interfaces are maximally devised in a pluggable way, except for the integrity-sensitive ones. Changes in the inter-module connectivity of the system architecture in the simulator correspond to handily unplug-and-reconnect the modules' topology.
- Intra-module customization is also allowed. It just requires unplug-and-replace your dedicated design by following the protocols of cross-module interfaces.
📋The checklist of required components is shown as follows:
| Component | Specifications |
|---|---|
| Power Supply | DC-5.5*2.1, 12~24V, 120+Watts |
| FPC Connector | 40 pins, 0.5mm spanning, 30+mA |
| SMA Connector | SMA-Male (depend on your pair) |
| FPGA Board | OpenEdv FPGA-Core ZYNQ-7020 |
| Ethernet Cable | RJ-45 Gigabyte Cable Cat5/6/7 |
| USB Cable | Type-C USB Cable for Serial Port |
| Micro-SD Card | Recommend 8GB or above |
🚀We also demonstrate a case study called LightRocket in our paper, which has included a detailed figure showcasing inter-module connections for reference. As for the design of photonic modules, please refer to the sibling repository: FIONA-Photonic.
🪄The development environment is based on Altium Designer 2023. After installation, you can directly open the workspace FIONA-Workspace.DsnWrk, which will automatically load all the board projects.
| Files / Dirs | Notes |
|---|---|
src/ |
the directories that store the source files of the projects |
fab/ |
the directories that store the files for foundry to fab |
*.SchDoc |
the files of circuit schematics |
*.PcbDoc |
the files of printed-circuit board layouts |
*.Cam |
the files for manufacturing |
Pick Place*.csv |
the files that store the pick-place position for SMT |
🎓Please cite the following paper if you find this work useful:
Yinyi Liu, Bohan Hu, Zhenguo Liu, Peiyu Chen, Linfeng Du, Jiaqi Liu, Xianbin Li, Wei Zhang, Jiang Xu. FIONA: Photonic-Electronic Co-Simulation Framework and Transferable Prototyping for Photonic Accelerator. In 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). IEEE, 2023.
❤️I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to several organizations for their invaluable contributions to my work. Without their support, this project would not have been possible:
| Organizations | Supports |
|---|---|
| University Grants Committee (Hong Kong) | Research Funds |
| Guangzhou-HKUST(GZ) Joint Funding Program | Research Funds |
| Altium Designer | Academic License |
| OpenEdv (正点原子) | References and Tutorials |