Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutions

M Tan, J Xu, S Liu, J Feng, H Zhang, C Yao… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
Due to the rise of 5G, IoT, AI, and high-performance computing applications, datacenter
traffic has grown at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30%. Furthermore, nearly three …

CrossLight: A cross-layer optimized silicon photonic neural network accelerator

F Sunny, A Mirza, M Nikdast… - 2021 58th ACM/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Domain-specific neural network accelerators have seen growing interest in recent years due
to their improved energy efficiency and performance compared to CPUs and GPUs. In this …

Silicon photonics codesign for deep learning

Q Cheng, J Kwon, M Glick, M Bahadori… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning is revolutionizing many aspects of our society, addressing a wide variety of
decision-making tasks, from image classification to autonomous vehicle control. Matrix …

8.7 A 112Gb/s ADC-DSP-based PAM-4 transceiver for long-reach applications with> 40dB channel loss in 7nm FinFET

P Mishra, A Tan, B Helal, CR Ho, C Loi… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by the proliferation of rich media services and a drastic increase of data availability,
the demand for high-speed data transfer in the data center continues to grow at greater than …

6.2 A 460mW 112Gb/s DSP-based transceiver with 38dB loss compensation for next-generation data centers in 7nm FinFET technology

T Ali, E Chen, H Park, R Yousry… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Explosive growth in mega-scale data centers drives switch chips to transition from 12.8 Tb/s
to 51.2 Tb/s throughput. A 51.2 Tb/s switch requires 512 lanes operating at 106Gb/s PAM-4 …

Recent Advances in Ultra-High-Speed Wireline Receivers With ADC-DSP-Based Equalizers

S Jang, J Lee, Y Choi, D Kim… - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-speed wireline data transceivers (TRX) with analog-to-digital converter (ADC) followed
by digital signal processor (DSP) on the receiver (RX) equalizer became popular for …

A 243-mW 1.25–56-Gb/s continuous range PAM-4 42.5-dB IL ADC/DAC-based transceiver in 7-nm FinFET

M Pisati, F De Bernardinis, P Pascale… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a compact analog-to-digital converter (ADC)/digital-to-analog converter
(DAC) digital signal processing (DSP)-based long reach (LR) transceiver in 7-nm FinFET …

6.4 A 56Gb/s 7.7 mW/Gb/s PAM-4 wireline transceiver in 10nm FinFET using MM-CDR-based ADC timing skew control and low-power DSP with approximate …

BJ Yoo, DH Lim, H Pang, JH Lee… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Needs for I/O bandwidth have rapidly increased with the explosive growth of internet traffic
and data technologies. To accommodate the required high bandwidth, a DSP-based PAM-4 …

Design of a 50-Gb/s hybrid integrated Si-photonic optical link in 16-nm FinFET

M Raj, Y Frans, PC Chiang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an electro-absorption modulator (EAM)-based single-mode (SM) 50-
Gb/s non return to zero (NRZ) Si-photonic optical link in a 16-nm FinFET. The EAM device is …

Sub-THz/THz interconnect, complement to electrical and optical interconnects: Addressing fundamental challenges related to communication distances

QJ Gu - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The big data era has witnessed expansion of information traffic at a 26% compound annual
growth rate (CAGR) during one decade, as shown in Figure 1 (a)[1],[2]. Rising data rates …