Recent remarkable advances in nanoscale silicon-photonic integrated circuitry specifically
compatible with CMOS fabrication have generated new opportunities for leveraging the …

Packet-switched networks on chip (NoC) have been advocated as a natural communication
mechanism among the processing cores in future chip multiprocessors (CMP). However …

As application complexity continues to increase, multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoC)
with tens to hundreds of processing cores are becoming the norm. While computational …

In this paper, we present OIL, a parameterized Optical Interconnect Library of silicon nano-
photonic devices for system level interconnect planning/analysis and low power high …

A 4times4 Gb/s microring modulator cascade, which can directly convert data from a parallel
electrical bus to a multiple-wavelength optical signal in a single silicon-on-insulator …

High performance computing systems have made a spectacular progress over four decades.
As microprocessor speeds reach the GHz region; and their bandwidth requirements are …

Processor manufacturers have turned to parallelism to continue to improve processor
performance, and the bandwidth demands of these systems have risen. Silicon photonics …

Integrating electronic and photonic functions onto a single silicon-based chip using
techniques compatible with mass-production CMOS electronics will enable new design …

Bandwidth versus energy is a tradeoff in all systems and with the growing parallelism of
SOCs, bandwidth is a develo** bottleneck. A high-speed photonic link network was …

Growing demands in heterogeneous utility computing systems in future cloud and high
performance computing systems are driving the development of processor-hardware …