• DocumentCode
    2631558
  • Title

    Optical interconnects for intrachip global communication: motivation & validation

  • Author

    Haney, Michael W. ; Iqbal, Muzammil ; McFadden, Michael J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-28 Oct. 2005
  • Firstpage
    206
  • Lastpage
    207
  • Abstract
    Optical interconnects have the potential to prevent the performance saturation due to the limitations of global wires in future microchips. Global communication issues are analyzed and potential optical interconnect-based solutions are motivated and validated.
  • Keywords
    integrated optoelectronics; microprocessor chips; optical interconnections; global wires; intrachip global communication; microchips; optical interconnects; performance saturation; Bandwidth; Delay; Global communication; Integrated circuit interconnections; Logic; Microprocessors; Optical interconnections; Power system interconnection; System buses; Wires;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9217-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2005.1547951
  • Filename
    1547951