Numerous challenges present themselves when scaling traditional on-chip electrical
networks to large manycore processors. Some of these challenges include high latency …

This article presents BigBus, a novel design of an on-chip photonic network for a 1,024-node
system. For such a large on-chip network, performance and power reduction are two …

High static power dissipation is one of the largest hurdles in the widespread adoption of on-
chip optical networks. There are numerous proposals in literature for the reduction of static …

In this article, we propose using optical networks-on-chip (NoCs) to design cache access
protocols for large shared L2 caches. We observe that the problem is unique because …

In this paper, we propose to use optical NOCs to design cache access protocols for large
shared L2 caches. We observe that the problem is unique because optical networks have …