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 on Reliable Photonic NoC for Many-core Systems
| Topic Title | Overview | Expected Completion Date |
| Read papers | Thermal Refs | 8/11 |
| Edit Materials | Text(Intro and Related Works) | 8/15 |
| Edit Visuals | Graphs and Tables | 8/17 |
| Revise | Review and Edit | 8/19 |
| Procedure | Completion deadline | Notes |
| Abstract | Aug 15th | |
| Chapter 1: Introduction | Aug 26th | |
| Chapter 2: PNoC overview and Fault Models | Sep 2nd | |
| Chapter 3: Related work | Sept 9th | |
| Chapter 4: Fault Tolerant Optical Router | Sept 12th | |
| Chapter 5: Fault Tolerant Path Configuration | Sept 16th | |
| Chapter 6: LASA Routing Algorithm | Sep 23rd | |
| Chapter 7: Evaluation | Sept 30th | |
| Chapter 8: Conclusion | October 7th | |
| Complete initial draft | October 14th |
| Topic Title | Overview | Due Date | Date to Submit to Supervisor |
| Submit Other Journal | IEEE | 8/20 | 8/18 |
| Title and Committee | Submission to the Student affairs Division | 8/24 | 8/12 |
| Preliminary Review Documents | Thesis Documents | 10/24 | 10/20 |
| Preliminary Review | Initial Presentation and Feedback | 11/1 | 10/27 |
| Final Review Documentation | Edit and Resubmit Thesis | 1/4 | 1/2 |
| Final Review | Final Presentation | 1/10 | 1/6 |
| Submission | Finalized Dissertation and other paperwork | 2/22 | 2/15 |
| Public Presentation | Public Presentation | 3/7 | 3/1 |
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