• DocumentCode
    3054317
  • Title

    Designing processor-memory interfaces with monolithically integrated silicon-photonics

  • Author

    Chen Sun ; Yu-Hsin Chen ; Stojanovic, V.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    June 30 2013-July 4 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We propose a monolithically-integrated processor-to-DRAM interface using thermally-stable Mach-Zehnder switches for optical power guiding. For a representative set of SPLASH-2 benchmarks, we achieve 18% lower energy-per-bit cost over the previous resonant ring-switched design.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical design techniques; optical switches; random-access storage; silicon; DRAM; SPLASH-2 benchmarks; Si; energy-per-bit cost over; monolithically integrated silicon-photonics; optical power guiding; processor-memory interfaces design; thermally-stable Mach-Zehnder switches; Benchmark testing; Couplers; DRAM chips; Optical switches; Photonics; Power lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600000
  • Filename
    6600000
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3054317