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| This paper proposes a new means to complete the optical vectormatrix multiplication (OVMM). The OVMM is implemented on a novel optical computing architecture, ternary optical computer (TOC) by using modified signed-digit (MSD) number system. In addition, this study realizes optical addition in three steps, independent of the length of the operands, by four transformations in MSD, and discuses the multiplication of two MSD numbers in detail. A preliminary experimentation about the OVMM is performed on TOC. It illustrates the proposed method for OVMM is feasible and correct. |
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| Keywords:parallel, modified signed-digit, no-carry addition, basic operating unit, partial sum |
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