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Reliable Photonic NoC for Many-core Systems
Research Motivation†
Current NoC technology is limited by the speed of their buses.
In order to boost the throughput and reduce the power cost of these systems,
we intend to implement a Photonic Network on Chip based around the 3D Oasis NoC design.
Most proposed networks are implemented with a dedicated photonic layer stacked on top of conventional electronic layer(s). However, to satisfies future applications with high-bandwidth requirements, single-layer typologies should be modified by increasing the number of wave-guides and MRs in the photonic layer.
This technique may not be suitable because of the design limitation in a single photonic router, such as number of wave-guides spacing requirement, higher wave-guides crossing loses, etc. PHENIC implements multi-layer photonic network to deal with these problems.
In addition, PNoC designs are very complex, and thus are more susceptible to physical defects and short-term malfunctions. Therefore, fault-tolerance has become a primordial requirement for these future generation high-performance systems.
Research Goal†
Research on Reliable Photonic NoC for Many-core Systems
Research Plan†
Step 1: Completed†
- Study of OASIS 3D NoC
- Survey about Photonic NoC main building blocks
- Survey about Photonic Switches
- Survey about FT in Photonic NoC
Step 2†
- 1.Development of FT switch for 3D PHENIC NoC System---Done
- 2.Publication of an article entitled -under submitted conference section
Step 3†
Detailed Research Schedule†
| Journal Writing | FT 2DPHENIC | 8/20 | 9/7 |
Achievement (Jnl/Conference Publications, Technical Reports, Students Guidance, Public presentations)†
Journal papers†
papers Under Review, in preparation†
Conference papers†
- 1. Michael Meyer, et al., "Microring Fault-resilient Optical Router for Reliable Network-on-Chip Systems," in Proc. of 9th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core SoCs (MCSoC-15), Turin, Italy, Sept. 2015, pp. 227-234.
- 2. M. Meyer, et al., "On the Design of a Fault-tolerant Photonic Network," in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2015), Hong Kong, Oct. 9-12, 2015, pp 821-826.
Technical Reports†
Public Presentation @ Conferences†
Progress reports†
Related References†
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Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2011 IEEE, pp. 1-8,
Sept. 2011.
Related Projects†
OASIS 3D-Router†
Updates:
- B., April 3, 2015 - Publication schedule added.
- B., Nov. 9, 2014 - updated research progress tasks
- Ben, Oct. 20, 2014 - added Ref. # 10.
- Ben, July 17, 2014 - added Ref. 8 and 9, added OASIS Tutorial
- Ben,27/05/14
- Ben,20/05/14
- Ben,12/04/14