Dynamic Reconfiguration of an Optical Interconnect

  • Authors:
  • Praveen Krishnamurthy;Mark Franklin;Roger Chamberlain

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ANSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th annual symposium on Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The advent of optical technology that can feasibly supportextremely high bandwidth chip-to-chip communicationraises a host of architectural questions in the design of digitalsystems. Terabit per second (and higher) bandwidthshave not previously been available at the chip level. In thispaper we examine the use of this optical technology in thedesign of a network router, a system for which previous designshave been I/O limited at the chip level. Specifically,we examine the benefits of bandwidth reconfigurability, acapability of the proposed switch fabric, and illustrate theperformance impact associated with different reconfigurationrates.