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Variation-Aware Adaptive Tuning for Nanophotonic Interconnects

Authors:

Tsung-Ching Huang,

John E. Bowers,

Raymond G. Beausoleil,

Kwang-Ting ChengAuthors Info & Claims

ICCAD '15: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design

Pages 487 - 493

Published: 02 November 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Short-reach nanophotonic interconnects are promising to solve the communication bottleneck in data centers and chip-level scenarios. However, the nanophotonic interconnects are sensitive to process and thermal variations, especially for the microring structures, resulting in significant variation of an optical link's bit error rate (BER). In this paper, we propose a power-efficient adaptive tuning approach for nanophotonic interconnects to address the variation issues. During the adaptive tuning process, each nanophotonic interconnect is adaptively allocated just enough power to meet the BER requirement. The proposed adaptive tuning approach could reduce the photonic receiver power by 8% - 34% than the worst-case based fixed design while achieving the same BER. Our evaluation results show that the adaptive tuning approach scales well with the process variation, the thermal variation and the number of communication nodes, and can accommodate different types of NoC architectures and lasers.

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Wang YSeyedi MHulme JFiorentino MBeausoleil RCheng KShibuya T(2019)Bidirectional tuning of microring-based silicon photonic transceivers for optimal energy efficiencyProceedings of the 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference10.1145/3287624.3287649(370-375)Online publication date: 21-Jan-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3287624.3287649
Wu RSeyedi MWang YHulme JFiorentino MBeausoleil RCheng KShin Y(2018)Pairing of microring-based silicon photonic transceivers for tuning power optimizationProceedings of the 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference10.5555/3201607.3201636(135-140)Online publication date: 22-Jan-2018
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