1 Introduction
As the cost of computers has decreased end their performance increased, the use of parallel processors in embedded real-time systems has grown. Associated with this growth has been a need for higher processor interconnect bandwidth. Recent advances in VLSI photonic technology have led to the development of photonic communication technologies to satisfy this need. This paper considers a specific class of real-time applications associated with signal processing (e.g., synthetic aperature radar image formation, beamforming).