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 …

Designing low-power, low-latency networks-on-chip by optimally combining electrical and optical links

S Werner, J Navaridas, M Luján - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical on-chip communication is considered a promising candidate to overcome latency
and energy bottlenecks of electrical interconnects. Although recently proposed hybrid …

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 …

Adaptive tuning of photonic devices in a photonic NoC through dynamic workload allocation

JL Abellán, AK Coskun, A Gu, W Jin… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic network-on-chip (PNoC) is a promising candidate to replace traditional electrical
NoC in manycore systems that require substantial bandwidths. The photonic links in the …

Compact modeling for silicon photonic heterogeneously integrated circuits

Z Zhang, R Wu, Y Wang, C Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Photonic-integrated circuits fabricated on a heterogeneously integrated silicon platform have
demonstrated record levels of integration and communication capacity. As photonic …

Ant colony optimization-based thermal-aware adaptive routing mechanism for optical NoCs

J Wang, Y Ye - IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical networks-on-chip (NoC) based on silicon photonics has been proposed as an
emerging on-chip communication infrastructure of chip multiprocessors. However, due to …

LORAX: Loss-aware approximations for energy-efficient silicon photonic networks-on-chip

F Sunny, A Mirza, I Thakkar, S Pasricha… - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The approximate computing paradigm advocates for relaxing accuracy goals in applications
to improve energy-efficiency and performance. Recently, this paradigm has been explored …

Thermal-aware design and simulation approach for optical NoCs

Y Ye, W Zhang, W Liu - … Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For chip multiprocessors, one major challenge is to bridge the increasing speed gap
between processor and the global on-chip interconnect delay. By integrating optical …

Thermal-sensitive design and power optimization for a 3D torus-based optical NoC

K Yao, Y Ye, S Pasricha, J Xu - 2017 IEEE/ACM International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to overcome limitations of traditional electronic interconnects in terms of power
efficiency and bandwidth density, optical networks-on-chip (NoCs) based on 3D integrated …

MSONoC: A Metasurface-Assisted Hybrid Waveguide/FSO Network-on-Chip Architecture

W Sun, J Li, P Guo, X He, Z Wang, C Hu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical networks-on-chips (ONoCs) have emerged as the most promising solution for on-
chip interconnection networks, offering distinct advantages such as high bandwidth and low …