EAN: 9783031006463

SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE O...

As the number of cores on a chip continues to climb  architects will need to address both
bandwidth and power consumption issues related to the interconnection network. Electrical
interconnects are not likely to scale well to a large number of processors for energy
efficiency reasons  and the problem is compounded by the fact that there is a fixed total power
budget for a die  dictated by the amount of heat that can be dissipated without special (and
expensive) cooling and packaging techniques. Thus  there is a need to seek alternatives to
electrical signaling for on-chip interconnection applications. Photonics  which has a
fundamentally different mechanism of signal propagation  offers the potential to not only
overcome the drawbacks of electrical signaling  but also enable the architect to build energy
efficient  scalable systems. The purpose of this book is to introduce computer architects to
the possibilities and challenges of working with photons and designing on-chip photonic
interconnection networks.

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