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 …

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

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 …

Large-scale computer installations are severely limited by network-bandwidth constraints
and energy costs that arise from architectural designs originally based on copper …

The paper presents a comprehensive physical layer design and modeling platform for
silicon photonic interconnects. The platform is based on explicit closed-form expressions for …

Technology scaling will soon enable high-performance processors with hundreds of cores
integrated onto a single die, but the success of such systems could be limited by the …

Silicon microring resonators play pivotal roles in photonic integration circuits due to the
advantages of low power consumption, high bandwidth, and ultracompact size. However …

Single-mode wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical links are an attractive
technology to meet the growing interconnect bandwidth demand in data center applications …

The scalability trends of modern semiconductor technology lead to increasingly dense
multicore chips. Unfortunately, physical limitations in area, power, off-chip bandwidth, and …

Chip multiprocessor (CMP) is becoming an attractive platform for applications seeking both
high performance and high energy efficiency. In large-scale CMPs, the communication …