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Towards a scalable, low-power all-optical architecture for networks-on-chip

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Somayyeh Koohi,

Shaahin Hessabi,

S. J. Ben YooAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 13, Issue 3s

Article No.: 101, Pages 1 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/2567930

Published: 28 March 2014 Publication History

Abstract

This article proposes a scalable wavelength-routed optical Network on Chip (NoC) based on the Spidergon topology, named Power-efficient Scalable Wavelength-routed Network-on-chip (PeSWaN). The key idea of the proposed all-optical architecture is the utilization of per-receiver wavelengths in the data network to prevent network contention and the adoption of per-sender wavelengths in the control network to avoid end-point contention. By performing a series of simulations, we study the efficiency of the proposed architecture, its power and energy consumption, and the data transmission delay. Moreover, we compare the proposed architecture with electrical NoCs and alternative ONoC architectures under various traffic patterns.

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Volume 13, Issue 3s

Special Issue on Design Challenges for Many-Core Processors, Special Section on ESTIMedia'13 and Regular Papers

March 2014

403 pages

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DOI:10.1145/2597868

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Published: 28 March 2014

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