we design and simulate a five-port optical router, which is composed of twenty mach-zehnder-based switching elements and twelve waveguide crossings for use in integrated photonic interconnection networks. we simulated and analyzed the operation of the proposed optical router from the aspects of insertion loss, power budget, q-factor and the minimum bit error ratio by use of optisystem simulator...

Models of electrical interconnects, including inductance and skin effect, are reviewed. The models are used for estimating the performance of electrical interconnects, particularly related to delays, data rates, and power consumption for off-chip and on-chip interconnects and for clock distribution. It is demonstrated that correctly utilized, electrical interconnects do not severely limit chip ...

Optical networking technologies have been over the last two decades reshaping the entire telecom infrastructure networks around the world. As network bandwidth requirements increase, optical communication and networking technologies have been moving from their telecom origin into the enterprise. For example, today in data centers, all storage area networking is based on fiber interconnects with...

Scaling trends and limitations of existing interconnect technologies are discussed and two prospective future solutions carbon nanotube (CNT) and optical interconnects are examined in detail. The inherent unscalability of metal interconnects and degradation of their performance in the light of ever-increasing transistor density and performance is emphasized. Problems with multi-layer low-k/copp...

We experimentally demonstrate a 160-Gb/s Ethernet 4 packet switch using an 8.6-mm-long silicon nanowire for optical 5 burst switching, based on cross phase modulation in silicon. One 6 of the four packets at the bit rate of 160 Gb/s is switched by an 7 optical control signal using a silicon based 1 × 1 all-optical packet 8 switch. Error free performance (BER < 1E-9) is achieved for the 9 switch...

Optical networking technologies have been over the last two decades reshaping the entire telecom infrastructure networks around the world. As network bandwidth requirements increase, optical communication and networking technologies have been moving from their telecom origin into the enterprise. For example, today in data centers, all storage area networking is based on fiber interconnects with...

We review recent progress in the Terabus program, a chip-to-chip interconnect over optical waveguides on a printed circuit board. While such interconnects need to overcome packaging challenges, they promise datarate-scalability and performance advantages over electrical interconnects.

Reconfigurablele optical interconnects enable flexible and high-performance communication in multi-chip architectures to be arbitrarily adapted, leading to efficient parallel signal processing. The use of Opto-VLSI processors as beam steerers and multicasters for reconfigurable inter-chip optical interconnection is discussed. We demonstrate, as proof-of-concept, 2.5 Gbps reconfigurable optical ...

Processor speeds continue to increase rapidly due to the scaling of CMOS line-widths, but electrical interconnect speeds have not grown at the same rate. The loss mechanisms in electrical interconnects limit their ultimate capacity. Optical interconnects have the potential to alleviate this interconnect bottleneck. At short scales such as board-to-board, chip-to-chip, and on-chip, the important...

The CMOS IC industry thrives on the down-scaling drive for ever smaller transistors, leading to faster, smaller and more complex digital systems. These ICs are interconnected by electrical tracks running on Printed Circuit Boards. Due to different frequency-dependent sources of signal degradation, the performance of these electrical interconnects lags behind the IC performance. As the electrica...