A survey of silicon photonics for energy-efficient manycore computing

S Pasricha, M Nikdast - IEEE Design & Test, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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Design space exploration of microring resonators in silicon photonic interconnects: impact of the ring curvature

M Bahadori, M Nikdast, S Rumley, LY Dai… - Journal of lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A detailed analysis of fundamental tradeoffs between ring radius and coupling gap size is
presented to draw realistic borders of the possible design space for microring resonators …

Tron: Transformer neural network acceleration with non-coherent silicon photonics

S Afifi, F Sunny, M Nikdast, S Pasricha - Proceedings of the Great Lakes …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Transformer neural networks are rapidly being integrated into state-of-the-art solutions for
natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. However, the complex structure of …

LIBRA: Thermal and process variation aware reliability management in photonic networks-on-chip

IG Thakkar, S Pasricha - IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon nanophotonics technology is being considered for future networks-on-chip (NoCs) as
it can enable high bandwidth density and lower latency with traversal of data at the speed of …

A silicon photonic accelerator for convolutional neural networks with heterogeneous quantization

F Sunny, M Nikdast, S Pasricha - … of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Parameter quantization in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can help generate efficient
models with lower memory footprint and computational complexity. But, homogeneous …

Optical Computing for Deep Neural Network Acceleration: Foundations, Recent Developments, and Emerging Directions

S Pasricha - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.21184, 2024 - arxiv.org
Emerging artificial intelligence applications across the domains of computer vision, natural
language processing, graph processing, and sequence prediction increasingly rely on deep …

ARXON: A Framework for Approximate Communication Over Photonic Networks-on-Chip

FP Sunny, A Mirza, I Thakkar, M Nikdast… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The approximate computing paradigm advocates for relaxing accuracy goals in applications
to improve energy-efficiency and performance. Recently, this paradigm has been explored …

SOTERIA: exploiting process variations to enhance hardware security with photonic NoC architectures

SVR Chittamuru, IG Thakkar, V Bhat… - Proceedings of the 55th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Photonic networks-on-chip (PNoCs) enable high bandwidth on-chip data transfers by using
photonic waveguides capable of dense-wave-length-division-multiplexing (DWDM) for …

Exploiting process variations to secure photonic NoC architectures from snooping attacks

SVR Chittamuru, IG Thakkar, S Pasricha… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The compact size and high wavelength-selectivity of microring resonators (MRs) enable
photonic networks-on-chip (PNoCs) to utilize dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing …

ICES: an innovative crosstalk-efficient 2× 2 photonic-crystal switch

F Dehghani, S Mohammadi, B Barekatain… - Optical and Quantum …, 2021 - Springer
Crosstalk and insertion loss are the crucial determinants of ring resonated routers. A novel
2× 2 optical switch is proposed through a combination of broadband waveguide crossing …