Holistic comparison of optical routers for chip multiprocessors

• Main Authors: Ye, Yaoyao, Wu, Xiaowen, Xu, Jiang, Zhang, Wei, Nikdast, Mahdi, Wang, Xuan
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98318; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12384
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Network-on-chip (NoC) can improve the performance, power efficiency, and scalability of chip multiprocessors (CMPs). However, traditional NoCs using metallic interconnects consume a significant amount of power to deliver high communication bandwidth required in the near future. Optical NoCs are base...