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On-Chip Optical Interconnect Roadmap: Challenges and Critical Directions

2006; IEEE Photonics Society; Volume: 12; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/jstqe.2006.880615

1558-4542

Mikhail Haurylau, Guoqing Chen, Hui Chen, Jidong Zhang, Nicholas A. Nelson, David H. Albonesi, Eby G. Friedman, Philippe M. Fauchet,

Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices

Intrachip optical interconnects (OIs) have the potential to outperform electrical wires and to ultimately solve the communication bottleneck in high-performance integrated circuits. Performance targets and critical directions for ICs progress are yet to be fully explored. In this paper, the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) is used as a reference to explore the requirements that silicon-based ICs must satisfy to successfully outperform copper electrical interconnects (IEs). Considering the state-of-the-art devices, these requirements are extended to specific IC components