PHENIC: Si-Photonics NoC Project
Project Overview and Goal†
Electronic packet-switched on chip interconnects alleviate the problems of poor scalability, limited bandwidth, and high power consumption in traditional designs. This interconnection paradigm when combined with 3D integration technology offers advantages over 2D NoC design, such as shorter wire length, higher packing density, and smaller footprint. However, as feature sizes continue to shrink and as we are heading towards complex and large system design consisting of hundreds of PEs, traditional design approaches may not be enough for providing significant large bandwidth with low-power consumption. Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC) promises significant advantages over their electronic counterparts. In particular, they offer a potentially disruptive technology solution with fundamentally low power dissipation that remains independent of capacity while providing ultra-high throughput and minimal access latency. In this project, we research about the development of a high-performance and low-power on-chip silicon pohotonic NoC for heterogeneous complex many-core systems. Our approach is an extension of our earlier OASIS 3D-ENoC and off ers low-latency data propagation and ultra-wide bandwidth by leveraging wavelength-division multiplexing and time-division multiplexing. We also focus on the development of efficient routing, and thermal power optimizations algorithms.
The cores within PHENIC processor can communicate almost instantaneously due to the low latency and high bandwidth characteristics of optical communications. This will improve performance, power/energy efficiency and the programmability of the PHENIC chip.
PHENIC Architecture
Router Features†
- Non-Blocking
- Small number of switch (MR) activities
- Small/Minimum number of Wavequide crossing. (Note: Each WG crossing costs about .12 dB with current technology (2013))
- Packets traversing E--> W and N-->S do not require powering any MR.
Members†
Publications†
- 11 Achraf Ben Ahmed, Michael Meyer, Yuichi Okuyama, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, Hybrid Photonic NoC based on Non-blocking Photonic Switch and Light-weight Electronic Router, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2015), Oct. 9-12, 2015.
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- 10 Achraf Ben Ahmed, Yuichi Okuyama, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, Contention-free Routing for Hybrid Photonic Mesh-based Network-on-Chip Systems, Proc. of 9th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core SoCs (MCSoC-15), Sept. 2015.
(PAPER)
- 9 Michael Meyer, Akram Ben Ahmed,Yuichi Okuyama, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, Microring Fault-resilient Optical Router for Reliable Network-on-Chip Systems, Proc. of 9th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core SoCs (MCSoC-15), Sept. 2015.
(PAPER)
- 8 Michael Conrad Meyer, Akram Ben Ahmed, Yuki Tanaka, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, "On the Design of a Fault-tolerant Photonic Network-on-Chip", Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2015), Oct. 9-12, 2015.
(PAPER)
- 7. A.Ben Ahmed , Y.Okuyama, A.Ben Abdallah, "Non-blocking Electro-optic Network-on-Chip Router for High-throughput and Low-power Many-core Systems", accepted for publication in The World Congress on Information Technology and Computer Applications 2015, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 11-13, 2015 (Latex), (PDF) , (Slides)
- 6. A.Ben Ahmed, M.Meyer, Y.Okuyama, A.Ben Abdallah, "Efficient Router Architecture, Design and Performance Exploration for Many-core Hybrid Photonic Network-on-Chip (2D-PHENIC)", accepted forpublication in the 2015 International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering ICISCE 2015, Shanghai, China, April 24-26, 2015 (Latex) (PDF)
- 5. Achraf Ben Ahmed, A. Ben Abdallah, PHENIC: Towards Photonic 3D-Network-on-Chip Architecture for High-throughput Many-core Systems-on-Chip, IEEE Proceedings of the 14th International conference on Sciences and Techniques of Automatic control and computer engineering, Dec. 2013. DOI
- 4. Achraf Ben Ahmed, A. Ben Abdallah, Hardware/Software Prototyping of Dependable Real-Time System for Elderly Health Monitoring,
IEEE Proc. of the World Congress on Computer and IT, ICMAES, June 2013.
[DOI]
- 3. Achraf Ben Ahmed, Yumiko Kimezawa, A. Ben Abdallah, Towards Smart Health Monitoring System for Elderly People, IEEE Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology, pp. 248-253, 2012.
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Miscellaneous Links†
- PHENIC-LINKS
- Special Issue: Silicon Nanophotonics for Future Multicore Architectures: Opportunities and Challenges, IEEE Design & Test, Issue 5, Oct. 2014
- (2011)Scalable 3D dense integration of photonics on bulk Silicon,Nicolás Sherwood-Droz, and Michal Lipson1, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca 14853, New York, USA, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca 14853, New York, USA
- (2011) Vertically stacked microring waveguides for coupling between multiple photonic planes, Nicolás Sherwood-Droz1, and Michal Lipso.
FSR Calculator†
Hardware†
- Router HW Design Examples:
Posters†
Updates†
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PHENIC Poster "PDF" , 
