DUAL RAIL DILATED SWITCHING NETWORKS

摘要

A method for realizing, and a structure for implementing a switching network employing 2x2 switches. The network is dilated in that none of the 2x2 switches concurrently carry an active signal. The method for realizing such a network alters a given non-dilated network by replacing each 2x2 switch in the non-dilated network with a dual rail switch haing a pair of 2x2 interconnected switches, and by replacing each link in the non-dilated network with a pair links. The final output of the dilated network is obtained by adding a combiner final stage which combines the pairs ofsignals to form output signals that parallel the output signals of the given non-dilated network.