Title :
Designing processor-memory interfaces with monolithically integrated silicon-photonics
Author :
Chen Sun ; Yu-Hsin Chen ; Stojanovic, V.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
June 30 2013-July 4 2013
Abstract :
We propose a monolithically-integrated processor-to-DRAM interface using thermally-stable Mach-Zehnder switches for optical power guiding. For a representative set of SPLASH-2 benchmarks, we achieve 18% lower energy-per-bit cost over the previous resonant ring-switched design.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical design techniques; optical switches; random-access storage; silicon; DRAM; SPLASH-2 benchmarks; Si; energy-per-bit cost over; monolithically integrated silicon-photonics; optical power guiding; processor-memory interfaces design; thermally-stable Mach-Zehnder switches; Benchmark testing; Couplers; DRAM chips; Optical switches; Photonics; Power lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600000
