Name
Title | ||
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Towards High-Performance and Power-Efficient Optical NoCs Using Silicon-in-Silica Photonic Components |
Abstract | ||
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Networks-on-Chips (NoCs) are meeting the growing inter-tile communication needs of multicore chips. However, achieving system scalability by utilizing hundreds of cores on-chip requires high performance, yet energy-efficient on-chip interconnects. As electrical interconnects are marred by high energy-to-bandwidth costs, threatening multicore scalability, on-chip nanophotonics, which offer high throughput, yet energy-efficient communication, are an alternative attractive solution. In this paper we consider silicon nanophotonic components that are embedded completely within the silica (SiO2) substrate as opposed to prior-art that utilizes die on-surface silicon nanophotonics. As nanophotonic components now reside in the silica substrate's subsurface, a greater portion of a chip's real estate can be utilized by cores and routers, while non-obstructive interconnect geometries offering higher network throughput can be implemented. First, we show using detailed simulations based on commercial tools that such silicon-in-silica (SiS) structures are feasible, and then demonstrate our proof of concept by utilizing a hybrid SiS-based photonic mesh-diagonal links topology that provides both higher effective throughput and throughput-to-power ratio versus prior-art. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1109/INA-OCMC.2015.12 | Interconnection Network Architectures: On-Chip, Multi-Chip |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
elemental semiconductors,integrated optoelectronics,nanophotonics,network-on-chip,optical interconnections,silicon,silicon compounds,Si-SiO2,high-performance optical NoC,hybrid SiS-based photonic mesh-diagonal links topology,nonobstructive interconnect geometries,power-efficient optical NoC,silica substrate,silicon nanophotonic components,silicon-in-silica photonic components,silicon-in-silica structures,Nanophotonics,Networks-on-Chips,Photonic Interconnects,Silicon-in-Silica | Hybrid silicon laser,Computer science,Nanophotonics,Chip,Electronic engineering,Throughput,Interconnection,Multi-core processor,Photonics,Scalability | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 9 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| elena kakoulli | 1 | 36 | 5.37 |
| Vassos Soteriou | 2 | 421 | 27.62 |
| Charalambos Koutsides | 3 | 2 | 1.38 |
| Kyriacos Kalli | 4 | 4 | 2.87 |