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Title | ||
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Time-division-multiplexed arbitration in silicon nanophotonic networks-on-chip for high-performance chip multiprocessors |
Abstract | ||
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As the computational performance of microprocessors continues to grow through the integration of an increasing number of processing cores on a single die, the interconnection network has become the central subsystem for providing the communications infrastructure among the on-chip cores as well as to off-chip memory. Silicon nanophotonics as an interconnect technology offers several promising benefits for future networks-on-chip, including low end-to-end transmission energy and high bandwidth density of waveguides using wavelength division multiplexing. In this work, we propose the use of time-division-multiplexed distributed arbitration in a photonic mesh network composed of silicon micro-ring resonator based photonic switches, which provides round-robin fairness to setting up photonic circuit paths. Our design sustains over 10x more bandwidth and uses less power than the compared network designs. We also observe a 2x improvement in performance for memory-centric application traces using the MORE modeling system. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2011 | 10.1016/j.jpdc.2010.09.009 | J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
silicon nanophotonics,memory systems,silicon photonics,interconnection network,communications infrastructure,computational performance,photonic interconnection networks,network design,central subsystem,networks-on-chip,time-division-multiplexed arbitration,high-performance chip multiprocessors,photonic switch,high bandwidth density,photonic circuit path,silicon nanophotonic networks-on-chip,photonic mesh network,time division multiplexing,chip,network on chip,mesh network | Mesh networking,System on a chip,Telecommunications network,Computer science,Parallel computing,Chip,Silicon photonics,Time-division multiplexing,Multiplexing,Multi-core processor | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
71 | 5 | Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing |
Citations | PageRank | References |
14 | 0.66 | 22 |
Authors | ||
7 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilbert Hendry | 1 | 111 | 6.39 |
| Eric Robinson | 2 | 14 | 1.00 |
| Vitaliy Gleyzer | 3 | 28 | 2.03 |
| Johnnie Chan | 4 | 109 | 6.11 |
| Luca P. Carloni | 5 | 1713 | 120.17 |
| Nadya Bliss | 6 | 24 | 2.46 |
| Keren Bergman | 7 | 669 | 64.58 |