• DocumentCode
    2305551
  • Title

    Design of on-chip networks using microring-resonator based nanophotonic crossbar for future multicores

  • Author

    Morris, Randy W. ; Kodi, Avinash K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Ohio Univ., Athens, OH, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7-11 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    558
  • Lastpage
    559
  • Abstract
    We propose a microring resonator based nanophotonic crossbar to implement a 256-core network-on-chip architecture called E-PROPEL. Our results indicate E-PROPEL consumes 3× less power and increases performance by 2× when compared to leading electrical networks.
  • Keywords
    microcavities; nanophotonics; network-on-chip; optical resonators; E-PROPEL; microring resonator; multicores; nanophotonic crossbar; network-on-chip architecture; on-chip networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO
  • ISSN
    -
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5368-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    -
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5699009
  • Filename
    5699009