Leveraging Optical Technology in Future Bus-based Chip Multiprocessors
Proceedings of the 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Predictions of CMOS compatible on-chip optical interconnect
Integration, the VLSI Journal
System level assessment of an optical NoC in an MPSoC platform
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Corona: System Implications of Emerging Nanophotonic Technology
ISCA '08 Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Photonic Networks-on-Chip for Future Generations of Chip Multiprocessors
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Firefly: illuminating future network-on-chip with nanophotonics
Proceedings of the 36th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Phastlane: a rapid transit optical routing network
Proceedings of the 36th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
OIL: a nano-photonics optical interconnect library for a new photonic networks-on-chip architecture
Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on System level interconnect prediction
Silicon-photonic clos networks for global on-chip communication
NOCS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
Contention-free on-chip routing of optical packets
NOCS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
All-optical wavelength-routed noc based on a novel hierarchical topology
NOCS '11 Proceedings of the Fifth ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
A hybrid packet-circuit switched router for optical network on chip
Computers and Electrical Engineering
METEOR: Hybrid photonic ring-mesh network-on-chip for multicore architectures
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - Special Issue on Design Challenges for Many-Core Processors, Special Section on ESTIMedia'13 and Regular Papers
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
This paper proposes new architectures for data and control planes in a nanophotonic networks-on-chip (NoC) with the key advantages of scalability to large scale networks, constant node degree, and simplicity. Moreover, we propose a minimal deterministic routing algorithm for the data network which leads to small and simple photonic switches. Built upon the proposed novel topology, we present a scalable all-optical NoC, referred to as 2D-HERT, which offers passive routing of optical data streams based on their wavelengths. Utilizing wavelength routing method, Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technique, and a new all-optical control architecture, our proposed optical NoC eliminates the need for optical resource reservation at the intermediate nodes and the corresponding latency and area overheads. We compare performance of the proposed architecture against electrical NoCs and alternative all-optical architectures under various synthetic traffic patterns. Averaging through different traffic patterns, 2D-HERT architecture reduces data transmission delay by 18%, 4%, and 70% and achieves average per-packet power reduction of 53%, 45%, and 95% over optical crossbar, λ-router, and electrical Torus, respectively.