Title
Level-hybrid optoelectronic TESH interconnection network
Abstract
This paper discusses a hybrid optoelectronic scheme for a new interconnection network, "Toriconnected mESHes (TESH)". The major features of TESH are the following: it is hierarchical,thus allowing exploitation of computation locality as well as easy expansion up to a million processors or devices, it permits efficient VLSI/ULSI realization, it is designed to make use ofredundancy for defect circumvention, and it appears to be well suited for 3-D stacked implementation. Here, we discuss a novel extension to these capabilities through the provision of optical interconnections at the highest level, while keeping the lower levels electronic through metal wires. The advantages of the resulting architecture, dubbed as Level-Hybrid Optoelectronic TESH, are the elimination of bottlenecks which typically occur at the highest level due to the aggregation of traffic, and the reduction of cost by using traditional wire channels at the lower levels -- where optical links are deemed unnecessary.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/DFTVS.2003.1250094
DFT
Keywords
Field
DocType
ULSI,VLSI,hierarchical systems,integrated circuit interconnections,integrated optoelectronics,multiprocessor interconnection networks,network topology,optical interconnections,redundancy,3D stacked implementation,TESH,Tori connected meshes,ULSI realization,VLSI realization,computation locality,defect circumvention,electronic lower level interconnections,hierarchical scheme,hybrid optoelectronic scheme,interconnection network,level-hybrid optoelectronic TESH interconnection network,metal wires,optical interconnections,optical links,processors,redundancy,traffic aggregation,wire channels
Locality,Polygon mesh,Computer science,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Network topology,Redundancy (engineering),Interconnection,Optoelectronics,Very-large-scale integration,Computation
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-5774
0-7695-2042-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vijay K. Jain19354.61
Glenn H. Chapman216734.10