Scalable Power-Efficient Kilo-Core Photonic-Wireless NoC Architectures

As technology scales, hundreds and thousands of cores are being integrated on a single-chip. Since metallic interconnects may not scale effectively to support thousands of cores, architects have proposed emerging technologies such as photonics and wireless for intra-chip communication. While photonics technology is limited by the complexity and thermal effects, wireless technology for on-chip communication is limited by the available bandwidth....