A survey of on-chip optical interconnects

J Bashir, E Peter, SR Sarangi - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019 - dl.acm.org
Numerous challenges present themselves when scaling traditional on-chip electrical
networks to large manycore processors. Some of these challenges include high latency …

Wavelength-routed optical NoCs: Design and EDA—State of the art and future directions

TM Tseng, A Truppel, M Li, M Nikdast… - 2019 IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wavelength-routed optical network-on-chip (WRONoC) design consists of topological and
physical synthesis. It covers many interacting design aspects such as wavelength …

Swiftnoc: a reconfigurable silicon-photonic network with multicast-enabled channel sharing for multicore architectures

SVR Chittamuru, S Desai, S Pasricha - ACM Journal on Emerging …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
On-chip communication is widely considered to be one of the major performance
bottlenecks in contemporary chip multiprocessors (CMPs). With recent advances in silicon …

Thermal aware design method for vcsel-based on-chip optical interconnect

H Li, A Fourmigue, S Le Beux, X Letartre… - … , Automation & Test …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC) is an emerging technology considered as one of the key
solutions for future generation on-chip interconnects. However, silicon photonic devices in …

Prediction modeling for application-specific communication architecture design of optical NoC

J Trajkovic, S Karimi, S Hangsan, W Zhang - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Multi-core systems-on-chip are becoming state-of-the-art. Therefore, there is a need for a
fast and energy-efficient interconnect to take full advantage of the computational capabilities …

CustomTopo: A topology generation method for application-specific wavelength-routed optical NoCs

M Li, TM Tseng, D Bertozzi, M Tala… - 2018 IEEE/ACM …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical network-on-chip (NoC) is a promising platform beyond electronic NoCs. In particular,
wavelength-routed optical network-on-chip (WRONoC) is renowned for its high bandwidth …

PSION: Combining logical topology and physical layout optimization for Wavelength-Routed ONoCs

A Truppel, TM Tseng, D Bertozzi, JC Alves… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Optical Networks-on-Chip (ONoCs) are a promising solution for high-performance multi-core
integration with better latency and bandwidth than traditional Electrical NoCs. Wavelength …

Method to optimize optical switch topology for photonic network-on-chip

T Zhou, H Jia - Optics Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a method to optimize the optical switch by substituting optical
waveguide crossings for optical switching units and an optimizing algorithm to complete the …

Contrasting laser power requirements of wavelength-routed optical NoC topologies subject to the floorplanning, placement, and routing constraints of a 3-D-stacked …

M Ortín-Obón, M Tala, L Ramini… - … Transactions on Very …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A realistic assessment of optical networks-on-chip (ONoCs) can be performed only in the
context of a comprehensive floorplanning strategy for the system as a whole, especially …

Venus: A low-latency, low-loss 3-D hybrid network-on-chip for kilocore systems

W Tan, H Gu, Y Yang, K Wang… - Journal of lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network on chip (NoC) with more than 1000 cores is anticipated to meet the requirements of
exascale computing in the foreseeable future. As latency is one of the most critical metrics to …