A survey of on-chip optical interconnects

J Bashir, E Peter, SR Sarangi - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019 - dl.acm.org
Numerous challenges present themselves when scaling traditional on-chip electrical
networks to large manycore processors. Some of these challenges include high latency …

Contrasting wavelength-routed optical NoC topologies for power-efficient 3D-stacked multicore processors using physical-layer analysis

L Ramini, P Grani, S Bartolini… - … Design, Automation & …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical networks-on-chip (ONoCs) are currently still in the concept stage, and would benefit
from explorative studies capable of bridging the gap between abstract analysis frameworks …

Optical crossbars on chip, a comparative study based on worst‐case losses

S Le Beux, H Li, G Nicolescu… - Concurrency and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The many‐core design research community has shown high interest in optical crossbar on
chip for more than a decade. Key properties of optical crossbars, namely (1) contention‐free …

Engineering a bandwidth-scalable optical layer for a 3d multi-core processor with awareness of layout constraints

L Ramini, D Bertozzi, LP Carloni - 2012 IEEE/ACM Sixth …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of future chip multi-processors will only scale with the number of integrated
cores if there is a corresponding increase in memory access efficiency. The focus of this …

Optimization of interconnect architectures through coding: A review

A García-Ortiz, D Gregorek… - 2011 Saudi International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interconnects are becoming a major bottleneck in the design of modern Systems-on-Chip.
Power consumption, propagation delay, statistical variability, and reliability are some of the …

ToPro: A Topology Projector and Waveguide Router for Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks-on-Chip

Z Zheng, M Li, TM Tseng… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To meet the ever-increasing requirements of on-chip communication, the trend is towards
wavelength-routed optical networks-on-chip (WRONoCs), which support high-speed …

Power efficiency of wavelength-routed optical NoC topologies for global connectivity of 3D multi-core processors

L Ramini, D Bertozzi - Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
There is still a significant gap between the optical network-on-chip (NoC) concept and a
mature interconnect technology with practical relevance. Current research aims at bridging …

Alleviating routing congestion by combining logic resynthesis and linear placement

S Liu, KR Pan, M Pedram… - … European Conference on …, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this approach, the logic is restructured using an intermediate placement solution and then
the placement is adjusted to match the new logic structure. This ability to change logic …

A blocking optimization method by convergence of cores for application-based optical circuit switched network-on-chip

W Xu, N Wu, B Liu - Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2017 - Elsevier
With the development of technology of integrated circuit (IC), there will be several hundred
million or even several billion transistors in one chip. Optical network on chip (ONoC) has …

A WDM multi-waveguide low blocking architecture for ONoC

L Bai, H Gu, Y Yang, X Yu - Optics & Laser Technology, 2013 - Elsevier
Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC) promises significant bandwidth and power advantages for
future on chip interconnection. However, the blocking in circuit-switching ONoC degrades …