Silicon photonics for exascale systems

S Rumley, D Nikolova, R Hendry, Q Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
With the extraordinary growth in parallelism at all system scales driven by multicore
architectures, computing performance is increasingly determined by how efficiently high …

[HTML][HTML] The integration of microelectronic and photonic circuits on a single silicon chip for high-speed and low-power optoelectronic technology

R Gupta, A Kumar, M Kumar, R Singh, A Gehlot… - Nano Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
The combining microelectronic devices and associated technologies onto a single silicon
chip poses a substantial challenge. However, in recent years, the area of silicon photonics …

Heterogeneous silicon photonic integrated circuits

T Komljenovic, M Davenport, J Hulme… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We review recent breakthroughs in the silicon photonic technology and components, and
describe progress in silicon photonic integrated circuits. Heterogeneous silicon photonics …

Energy efficient and energy proportional optical interconnects for multi-core processors: Driving the need for on-chip sources

MJR Heck, JE Bowers - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is the prime candidate technology to realize an optical network-on-chip for
global interconnects in future multi-core processors. Since silicon photonics lacks efficient …

Flexfly: Enabling a reconfigurable dragonfly through silicon photonics

K Wen, P Samadi, S Rumley, CP Chen… - SC'16: Proceedings …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Dragonfly topology provides low-diameter connectivity for high-performance computing
with all-to-all global links at the inter-group level. Our traffic matrix characterization of various …

Recent advances in silicon photonic integrated circuits

JE Bowers, T Komljenovic, M Davenport… - … , Sub-Systems, and …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We review recent breakthroughs in silicon photonics technology and components and
describe progress in silicon photonic integrated circuits. Heterogeneous silicon photonics …

Micro/Nano Circuits and Systems Design and Design Automation: Challenges and Opportunities [Point of View]

G Cauwenberghs, J Cong, XS Hu, S Joshi… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of design and design automation of micro-/nano-circuits and systems has played a
pivotal role in advancing information technologies that are an inseparable part of all our …

Replica: A wireless manycore for communication-intensive and approximate data

V Fernando, A Franques, S Abadal… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Data access patterns that involve fine-grained sharing, multicasts, or reductions have proved
to be hard to scale in shared-memory platforms. Recently, wireless on-chip communication …

Probe: Prediction-based optical bandwidth scaling for energy-efficient nocs

L Zhou, AK Kodi - … Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NoCS), 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical interconnect is a disruptive technology solution that can overcome the power and
bandwidth limitations of traditional electrical Networks-on-Chip (NoCs). However, the static …

WiSync: An architecture for fast synchronization through on-chip wireless communication

S Abadal, A Cabellos-Aparicio, E Alarcon… - ACM SIGPLAN …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In shared-memory multiprocessing, fine-grain synchronization is challenging because it
requires frequent communication. As technology scaling delivers larger manycore chips …