Table of Contents
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"Very short reach optical interconnects in
systems: The case for fiber-to-the-processor"
Impact of Moore’s Law
Optical interconnect bandwidth is increasing faster
than CPU clock
The power crisis
The memory access imbalance
Microprocessor - DRAM performance gap
Nearing end of bus-based architecture today
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Bandwidth limitation of electrical PCB interconnect
Power dissipation advantage of optics: Experimental
results
Electrical compared to optical at 10 Gb/s in 0.1
mm CMOS
Optical-to-electrical conversion using CMOS TIA
10 Gb/s in 0.1 mm CMOS receiver circuit sensitivity
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System impact of >50 Gb/s/cm parallel fiber-optic
bandwidth density
Fiber form factor advantage for GB/s interconnect
Physical performance advantages of fiber-to-the-processor
Fiber-to-the-processor requires controlled technology
transition
System interconnect hierarchy and advanced optical
solutions
WDM for inter- and intra-PCB interconnects
Fiber-to-the-processor bandwidth scaling
Physical interconnect technology convergence to
IEEE 802.3xx Ethernet standard at 10 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s data rates
Possible future of the e-commerce data-center: Convergence
Service convergence
Technology enablers for a fiber-ready system
The promise of optics: “Almost-free, infinite-bandwidth,
anywhere, anytime !”
Supporting fiber-to-the-processor |
Author: alevi
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http://www.usc.edu/alevi
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