Hardware inventions · processors

PHOTONIC CORE

128-bit photonic processor · concept

A processor imagined in light: four quadrants, a 1×4×4×2×1 fractal lattice folding down to 128 terminal nodes, an 8-0-8 layer stack — driven by real, live 128-bit math. Three modes to explore it in.

⊚ Enter the Core View the architecture ↓
// live · the core, running

The core, in motion

The flagship view: 64 nodes across 16 layers, four quadrants Q1–Q4 each carrying a live 32-bit word that composes into the full CORE[127:0]. Drive containment, coupling, and output gain — the bits and the hex update in real time. The 128-bit arithmetic is genuine; the optics are simulated.

128b live · Q1^Q2^Q3^Q4 → CORE[127:0]open full-screen ↗
// what it is

An idea, made explorable

This is a concept and a set of interactive simulations — a way to think with the eyes about how a photonic processor might be organized: light as the carrier, fractal subdivision as the layout, harmonics as the clock. The bit math runs for real in your browser; the lasers, electron rings, and resonators are visualizations of the design, not measurements of a fabricated chip.

honest framing · concept + simulation, not a benchmarked device
// architecture

How it folds together

One number, many scales. Each quadrant subdivides 1×4×4×2×1 — thirty-two tips — and four quadrants close the ring at 128.

128
bit width
Q1–Q4, each a live 32-bit word, composed into CORE[127:0].
1×4×4×2×1
fractal per quadrant
32 terminal tips per quadrant × 4 quadrants = 128 nodes.
8-0-8
layer stack
16 layers, 64 nodes per layer, mirrored about the core.
4
quadrants
NE · cyan NW · magenta SW · green SE · orange
6×10
harmonic resonators
Six tones (UT·RE·MI·FA·SOL·LA); collapse each to its 10th subharmonic to engage singularity mode.
2
electron rings
Inner and outer rings feeding the 128 terminal nodes.
// three modes

Explore it three ways