Advances in opto-electronics are often led by discovery and development of materials
featuring unique properties. Recently, the material class of transparent conductive oxides …

Optical on-chip data transmission enabled by silicon photonics (SiP) is widely considered a
key technology to overcome the bandwidth and energy limitations of electrical interconnects …

It has long been known that photonic communication can alleviate the data movement
bottlenecks that plague conventional microelectronic processors. More recently, there has …

Silicon interposers enable the integration of multiple stacks of in-package memory to provide
higher bandwidth or lower energy for memory accesses. Once the interposer has been paid …

As multicore processors find increasing adoption in domains such as aerospace and
medical devices where failures have the potential to be catastrophic, strong performance …

Algorithms operating on a graph setting are known to be highly irregular and unstructured.
This leads to workload imbalance and data locality challenge when these algorithms are …

Network-on-Chips (NoCs) are the de facto choice for designing the interconnect fabric in
multicore chips due to their regularity, efficiency, simplicity, and scalability. However, NoC …

Silicon interposer technology (" 2.5 D" stacking) enables the integration of multiple memory
stacks with a processor chip, thereby greatly increasing in-package memory capacity while …

As the number of on-chip cores increases, scalable on-chip topologies such as meshes
inevitably add multiple hops in each network traversal. The best we can do right now is to …

As chip designs penetrate further into the dark silicon era, innovative techniques are much
needed to power off idle or under-utilized system components while having minimal impact …