A multi-wavelength communication strategy for 2D-mesh Network-on-Chip

IEICE Electronics Express

Xiaoshan Yu³  Huaxi Gu³  Luying Bai³  Hua You²  Yingtang Yang¹ 

[1] Institute of Microelectronics, Xidian University;Intel Asia-Pacific Research and development Ltd;State Key Laboratory of ISN, Xidian University

关键词: Network-on-Chip;    2D-mesh;    multi-wavelength;    path-shared;   

DOI  :  10.1587/elex.9.706

学科分类：电子、光学、磁材料

来源: Denshi Jouhou Tsuushin Gakkai

【 摘 要 】

References(5)2D-mesh is widely used in Network-on-Chip as its regular topology and simple layout match the two-dimensional VLSI layout well. Further more, the optical circuit switching (OCS) is introduced to provide higher bandwidth and lower power consumption. However, the undesirable property of OCS is the coarse granularity of resource reservation. It leads to a high blocking ratio and degrades the performance. This paper proposes a multi-wavelength communication strategy and an optical router to solve this problem. The simulation results show that the strategy improves the performance in terms of end-to-end delay and throughput.

【 授权许可】

Unknown