Apsel receives NSF Early Career Award

Designing with Light: Comparative Analysis and Design of Optical Interconnects for Chip-to-Chip Communication

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Designing with Light: Comparative Analysis and Design of Optical Interconnects for Chip-to-Chip Communication

Abstract:

CMOS electronics have become ubiquitous in modern society, continuing to create both technological and economic opportunities in such areas as portable computing and handheld devices. In the past, the capabilities of CMOS processors have been limited internally by transistor density, power consumption, and speed. All of these characteristics have improved consistently with transistor scaling, governed empirically by Moore's Law. However, as CMOS feature sizes decrease into the sub-micron regime, electrical signaling and interconnect problems promise to become the ultimate limit of high performance systems at both the board and chip levels. Integration of optical interconnects into high-performance computing offers a promising and necessary approach to solving the inter-chip communication bottleneck.

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