Silicon‐compatible photodetectors: trends to monolithically integrate photosensors with chip technology

W Yang, J Chen, Y Zhang, Y Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Encouraged by the increasing requirements of intelligent equipment, silicon integrated
circuit–compatible photodetectors that support single‐chip photonic–electronic systems …

A survey on optical network-on-chip architectures

S Werner, J Navaridas, M Luján - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2017 - dl.acm.org
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 …

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 …

Single-chip microprocessor that communicates directly using light

C Sun, MT Wade, Y Lee, JS Orcutt, L Alloatti… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Data transport across short electrical wires is limited by both bandwidth and power density,
which creates a performance bottleneck for semiconductor microchips in modern computer …

System, method, and computer program product for improving memory systems

MS Smith - US Patent 9,432,298, 2016 - Google Patents
H01L25/18—Assemblies consisting of a plurality of individual semiconductor or other solid
state devices; Multistep manufacturing processes thereof the devices being of types …

[HTML][HTML] Novel frontier of photonics for data processing—Photonic accelerator

K Kitayama, M Notomi, M Naruse, K Inoue… - Apl Photonics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In the emerging Internet of things cyber-physical system-embedded society, big data
analytics needs huge computing capability with better energy efficiency. Coming to the end …

DSENT-a tool connecting emerging photonics with electronics for opto-electronic networks-on-chip modeling

C Sun, CHO Chen, G Kurian, L Wei… - 2012 IEEE/ACM …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rise of many-core chips that require substantial bandwidth from the network on chip
(NoC), integrated photonic links have been investigated as a promising alternative to …

Understanding the energy consumption of dynamic random access memories

T Vogelsang - 2010 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy consumption has become a major constraint on the capabilities of computer
systems. In large systems the energy consumed by Dynamic Random Access Memories …

Rethinking DRAM design and organization for energy-constrained multi-cores

AN Udipi, N Muralimanohar, N Chatterjee… - Proceedings of the 37th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
DRAM vendors have traditionally optimized the cost-per-bit metric, often making design
decisions that incur energy penalties. A prime example is the overfetch feature in DRAM …

A software memory partition approach for eliminating bank-level interference in multicore systems

L Liu, Z Cui, M **ng, Y Bao, M Chen, C Wu - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Main memory system is a shared resource in modern multicore machines, resulting in
serious interference, which causes performance degradation in terms of throughput …