Panzer: A 6 × 6 photonic router for optical network on chip

Lei Huang, Kun Wang, Shixiong Qi, Huaxi Gu, Yintang Yang

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Abstract

Photonic interconnection network plays an increasingly significant role in on-chip microarchitecture. As the heart of optical network on chips, the photonic routers implement the function of routing package from input ports to output ports. In this letter, we proposed Panzer, a 6 × 6 optical router to meet the extension demand of on-chip network. Compared with other routers, Panzer has the lowest insertion loss and the fewest number of microring resonator. We simulated the 64-core improved mesh built with Panzer, and showed the end-to-end delay and network throughput under neighbor traffic patterns.

Original languageEnglish
Article number20160719
JournalIEICE Electronics Express
Volume13
Issue number21
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© IEICE 2016.

Funding

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China Grant No. 61472300, No. 61634004, No. 61474087, and the 111 Project Grant No. B08038.

FundersFunder number
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)61472300, 61474087, 61634004
Higher Education Discipline Innovation ProjectB08038

    Keywords

    • Optical router
    • Photonic NoC
    • Six ports

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
    • Condensed Matter Physics
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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