A Nanophotonic Interconnect for High-Performance Many-Core Computation

  • Authors:
  • R. G. Beausoleil;J. Ahn;N. Binkert;A. Davis;D. Fattal;M. Fiorentino;N. P. Jouppi;M. McLaren;C. M. Santori;R. S. Schreiber;S. M. Spillane;D. Vantrease;Q. Xu

  • Affiliations:
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  • Venue:
  • HOTI '08 Proceedings of the 2008 16th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Silicon nanophotonics holds the promise of revolutionizing computing by enabling parallel architectures that combine unprecedented performance and ease of use with affordable power consumption. Here we describe the results of a detailed multiyear design study of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) on-chip and off-chip interconnects and the device technologies that could improve computing performance by a factor of 20 above industry projections over the next decade.