Building Many-Core Processor-to-DRAM Networks with Monolithic CMOS Silicon Photonics

Silicon photonics is a promising technology for addressing memory bandwidth limitations in future many-core processors. This article first introduces a new monolithic silicon-photonic technology, which uses a standard bulk CMOS process to reduce costs and improve energy efficiency, and then explores...

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Published inIEEE MICRO Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 8 - 21
Main Authors Batten, C., Joshi, A., Orcutt, J., Khilo, A., Moss, B., Holzwarth, C.W., Popovic, M.A., Hanqing Li, Smith, H.I., Hoyt, J.L., Kartner, F.X., Ram, R.J., Stojanovic, V., Asanovic, K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.07.2009
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Atoms & subatomic particles
Bandwidth
CMOS
CMOS process
CMOS technology
Costs
DRAM
Energy efficiency
Energy use
hardware
Microprocessors
multicore/many-core processors
Networks
on-chip interconnection networks
Optical transmitters
Optical waveguides
Photonics
processor-to-DRAM networks
Processors
Random access memory
Silicon
silicon-photonic technology
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Summary:Silicon photonics is a promising technology for addressing memory bandwidth limitations in future many-core processors. This article first introduces a new monolithic silicon-photonic technology, which uses a standard bulk CMOS process to reduce costs and improve energy efficiency, and then explores the logical and physical implications of leveraging this technology in processor-to-memory networks.
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ISSN:0272-1732
1937-4143
DOI:10.1109/MM.2009.60