Abstract
In the wake of dwindling Moore's law, integrated electro-optic (E-O) computing circuits have shown revolutionary potential to provide progressively faster and more efficient hardware for computing. The E-O circuits for computing from the literature can operate with minimal latency at high bitrates. However, they face shortcomings due to their operand handling complexity, non-amortizable high area and static power overheads, and general unsuitability for large-scale integration on reticle-limited chips. To alleviate these shortcomings, in this paper, we present a microring resonator (MRR) based polymorphic E-O logic gate (MRR-PEOLG) that can be dynamically programmed to implement different logic functions at different times. Our MRR-PEOLG can provide compactness and polymorphism to E-O circuits, to consequently improve their operand handling and amortization of area and static power overheads. We model our MRR-PEOLG using photonics foundry-validated tools to perform frequency and time-domain analysis of its polymorphic logic functions. Our evaluation shows that the use of our MRR-PEOLG in two E-O circuits from prior works can reduce their area-energy-delay product by up to 82.6×. A tutorial on the modeling and simulation of our MRR-PEOLG, along with related codes and files, is available on https://github.com/ukyUC AT /MR R -PE OL G.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2023 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9798350334753 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2023 |
Event | 24th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2023 - San Francisco, United States Duration: Apr 5 2023 → Apr 7 2023 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings - International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED |
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Volume | 2023-April |
ISSN (Print) | 1948-3287 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1948-3295 |
Conference
Conference | 24th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2023 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Francisco |
Period | 4/5/23 → 4/7/23 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023 IEEE.
Keywords
- Bit-rate
- Microring Resonator
- Polymorphic
- Temperature
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hardware and Architecture
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality