Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Jun 2023)

Optical interconnections in future VLSI systems

  • Grzegorz Tosik,
  • Zbigniew Lisik,
  • Frederic Gaffiot

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26636/jtit.2007.3.841
Journal volume & issue
no. 3

Abstract

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This paper is focused on the latency and power dissipation in clock systems, which should be lower when the optical interconnects are applied. Simulation shows that the power consumed by an optical system is lower than that consumed by an electrical one, however the advantages of optics drastically decrease with the number of output nodes in H-tree. Additionally, simple replacement of an electrical system by an optical clock distribution network (CDN) results in high clock skew, which will be higher than 10% of the clock period for the 32 nm technology node.

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