
We present N-Radix, an open-source optical accelerator architecture based on wavelength-division ternary logic. Building on prior theoretical work, we describe a complete systolic array architecture optimized for AI/ML workloads. The design employs log-domain tower scaling where the NR-IOC reinterprets base-3 trits as 3^3 encoding, yielding up to 9× throughput improvement for addition operations. For matrix multiplication workloads, the architecture delivers approximately 1.8× throughput improvement via Amdahl's Law. At 960×960 scale, this yields 148 PFLOPS per chip—59× NVIDIA's B200. Compared to Frontier (1,200 PFLOPS), equivalent performance requires only 8 N-Radix chips at less than 0.02% of the power.
Optics and Photonics, Optical Computer, Nonlinear optics, Noval Architecture, Electrical engineering, computer science, Optics, Computer hardware, computer architecture, waveguides, electrical engineering, Fibre optics, Computer Architecture
Optics and Photonics, Optical Computer, Nonlinear optics, Noval Architecture, Electrical engineering, computer science, Optics, Computer hardware, computer architecture, waveguides, electrical engineering, Fibre optics, Computer Architecture
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