Multiplexing is of vital importance for utilizing the full potential of next generation sequencing technologies. We here report TagGD (DNA-based Tag Generator and Demultiplexor), a fully-customisable, fast and accurate software package that can generate thousands of barcodes satisfying user-defined constraints and can guarantee full demultiplexing accuracy. The barcodes are designed to minimise...

We present a high-speed, clockless, serial link transceiver for inter-chip communication in asynchronous VLSI systems. Serial link transceivers achieve high offchip data rates by using multiplexing transmitters and demultiplexing receivers that interface parallel on-chip data paths with high-speed, serial off-chip buses. While synchronous transceivers commonly use multi-phase clocks to control ...

Building system software that is reusable across OS platforms presents developers with many challenges. It is often difficult to reuse existing interfaces and implementations directly due to portability, functionality, and efficiency constraints imposed by different platforms and applications. It may still be possible, however, to leverage prior development effort by reusing design patterns. De...

We report a 160 Gb/s OTDM network comprising switching and demultiplexing through field deployed fiber. The 160 Gb/s signal was obtained by time-interleaving 16 channels of a 10 Gb/s signal. The add-drop node was realized by using a gain-transparent operation of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). A subharmonic clock recovery with a pre-scaled electro-optical phase locked loop employing an...

In spatially multiplexed MIMO systems that enable high-data-rate transmission over wireless communication channels, spatial demultiplexing at the receiver is a challenging task. Thus, various demultiplexing methods have been developed by many researchers. In this paper, a novel signal detection method that achieves near-ML performance in a computationally efficient manner is proposed. The propo...

Distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) applications often possess stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Designing middleware for DRE applications poses several challenges to object request broker (ORB) developers. This paper provides the following contributions to the study of middleware for DRE applications. First, we outline the challenges present in one of the principal ORB comp...

A compact wavelength demultiplexing structure based on arrayed metal-insulator-metal (MIM) slot cavities is proposed and demonstrated numerically. The structure consists of a bus waveguide perpendicularly coupled with a series of slot cavities, each of which captures SPPs at the resonance frequency from the bus waveguide and tunes the transmission wavelength by changing its geometrical paramete...

We demonstrate a self-organizing photorefractive circuit that demultiplexes a beam that has two signals imposed on separate optical carrier frequencies into two beams, each containing one of the signals on its carrier. Unlike conventional demultiplexing techniques, this method requires little a priori knowledge about the carrier frequencies. The signal channels must be spatially uncorrelated, a...