Efficient Router Architecture, Design and Performance Exploration for Many-core Hybrid Photonic Network-on-Chip (2D-PHENIC)
2015 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND CONTROL ENGINEERING ICISCE 2015
Authors: Ben Ahmed, Achraf; Meyer, Michael; Okuyama, Yuichi; Ben Abdallah, Abderazek
Abstract
Nowadays, increasing emerging application complexity and improvement in process technology have enabled the design of many-core processors with tens to hundreds of cores on a single chip. Photonic Network-on-Chips (PNoCs) have recently been proposed as an alternative approach with high performance-per-watt characteristics for intra-chip communication. While providing large bandwidth through WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing), the main design challenge of conventional hybrid PNoC lies in the control layer, which is generally used for path set-up and also for short message communication. In this paper, we propose architecture and design of an efficient router for control and communication in heterogeneous Many-core Hybrid Photonic Network-on-Chip (2D-PHENIC)(1). In addition, we present detailed complexity and performance evaluation of the proposed architecture.
PICO: Mitigating Heterodyne Crosstalk Due to Process Variations and Intermodulation Effects in Photonic NoCs
2016 ACM/EDAC/IEEE DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE (DAC)
Authors: Chittamuru, Sai Vineel Reddy; Thakkar, Ishan G.; Pasricha, Sudeep
Abstract
Photonic networks-on-chip (PNoCs) employ photonic waveguides with dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) for signal traversal and microring resonators (MRs) for signal modulation, to enable high bandwidth on-chip transfers. Unfortunately, DWDM increases susceptibility to intermodulation effects, which reduces signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for photonic data transfers. Additionally, process variations induce variations in the width and thickness of MRs causing resonance wavelength shifts, which further reduces SNR, and creates communication errors. This paper proposes a novel framework (called PICO) for mitigating heterodyne crosstalk due to process variations and intermodulation effects in PNoC architectures. Experimental results indicate that our approach can improve the worst-case SNR by up to 4.4x and significantly enhance the reliability of DWDM-based PNoC architectures.