High-performance, Scalable Photonics On-chip Network for Many-core Systems-on-Chip
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Research Motivation and Goal†
Electronic packet-switched on chip interconnects alleviate the problems of poor scalability, limited bandwidth, and high power consumption in traditional designs.
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.
My research goal is about the development of novel routing algorithms and architecture for high-throughput Si-Photonics NoC systems.
Detailed Research Schedule†
Achievements†
Journal papers Under Review†
Conference papers Under Review†
Published Papers†
Journals:
Conferences:
- 7. Achraf Ben Ahmed, M.Meyer, Y.Okuyama, A. Ben Abdallah, Hybrid Photonic NoC based on Non-blocking Photonic Switch and Light-weight Electronic Routerin, in the IEEE SMC 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS, Oct.2015, pp. 56-61 (PDF, Latex, Slides) Last Update on: Oct.14, Time: 14:15.
- 5. Achraf Ben Ahmed , Y.Okuyama, A.Ben Abdallah, "Non-blocking Electro-optic Network-on-Chip Router for High-throughput and Low-power Many-core Systems", The World Congress on Information Technology and Computer Applications 2015, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 11-13, 2015 (Latex), (PDF) , (Slides) DOI
- 4. Achraf 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)", International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering ICISC, Shanghai, China, pp. 202-206, Apr. 2015, [DOI]
- 3. 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, pp. 1-9, Dec. 2013. DOI
- 2. 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, pp. 1-6, June 2013.
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- 1. 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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Tutorials and Technical Reports†
- Path Configuration For Hybrid Photonic NoC: PHENIC-II Vs.Conventional. (Latex) (PDF) (PPT)
Materials†
- JSC figures, October 2015 PPTX
- Path configuration algorithm: PHENIC Vs. Conventional PPTX
- JSC Gnuplot source files, October 2015 .zip
Miscellaneous†
Photonic devices†
Simulators†
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Updates†
- 5/19 - Publication schedule updated.. Achraf
- 5/12 - Upcoming conf.. Achraf
- 5/1 - links updated. Achraf
- 4/30 - Research title adjusted. Page reorganized, B.