Photonic-electronic integrated circuits for high-performance computing and ai accelerators

S Ning, H Zhu, C Feng, J Gu, Z Jiang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent decades, the demand for computational power has surged, particularly with the
rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI). As we navigate the post-Moore's law era, the …

Photonic multiply-accumulate operations for neural networks

MA Nahmias, TF De Lima, AN Tait… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has long been known that photonic communication can alleviate the data movement
bottlenecks that plague conventional microelectronic processors. More recently, there has …

A 25 Gb/s, 4.4 V-swing, AC-coupled ring modulator-based WDM transmitter with wavelength stabilization in 65 nm CMOS

H Li, Z Xuan, A Titriku, C Li, K Yu… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics devices offer promising solution to meet the growing bandwidth demands
of next-generation interconnects. This paper presents a 5× 25 Gb/s carrier-depletion …

Silicon photonic transceiver circuits with microring resonator bias-based wavelength stabilization in 65 nm CMOS

C Li, R Bai, A Shafik, EZ Tabasy… - IEEE journal of solid …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic interconnects are a promising technology to meet the bandwidth demands of next-
generation high-performance computing systems. This paper presents silicon photonic …

CMOS-compatible, athermal silicon ring modulators clad with titanium dioxide

SS Djordjevic, K Shang, B Guan, STS Cheung… - Optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We present the design, fabrication and characterization of athermal nano-photonic silicon
ring modulators. The athermalization method employs compensation of the silicon core …

A monolithically-integrated chip-to-chip optical link in bulk CMOS

C Sun, M Georgas, J Orcutt, B Moss… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon-photonics is an emerging technology that can overcome the tradeoffs faced by
traditional electrical I/O. Due to ballooning development costs for advanced CMOS nodes …

Compact PIN-diode-based silicon modulator using side-wall-grating waveguide

S Akiyama, M Imai, T Baba, T Akagawa… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We developed PIN-diode-based silicon Mach-Zehnder modulators, which have side-wall-
gratings in the phase-shifter sections. Such passive waveguides with gratings were …

Thermal management of manycore systems with silicon-photonic networks

T Zhang, JL Abellán, A Joshi… - … Design, Automation & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon-photonic network-on-chips (NoCs) provide high bandwidth density; therefore, they
are promising candidates to replace electrical NoCs in manycore systems. The silicon …

Leveraging silicon-photonic noc for designing scalable gpus

AKK Ziabari, JL Abellán, R Ubal, C Chen… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Silicon-photonic link technology promises to satisfy the growing need for high bandwidth,
low-latency and energy-efficient network-on-chip (NoC) architectures. While silicon-photonic …

A compact Verilog-A model of silicon carrier-injection ring modulators for optical interconnect transceiver circuit design

B Wang, C Li, CH Chen, K Yu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical interconnect system efficiency is dependent on the ability to optimize the transceiver
circuitry for low-power and high-bandwidth operation, motivating co-simulation …