An Enhanced Inter/Intra-Chip Optical Network for Chip Multiprocessors

Abstract

As modern computing systems become increasingly complex, communication efficiency among and inside chip s has become as important as the computation sp eeds of individual p rocessor cores. Traditionally, inter-chip and intra-chip commu- nication architectures are separately designed to maximize design flexibility under different constraints. However, jointly designing communication architectures for both inter-chip and intra-chip communication could potentially yield better solutions. In t