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Sponsors

DARPA, Texas Instruments

People

Ajay Joshi, Ben Moss, Michael Georgas, Jonathan Leu
in collaboration with people from groups of Prof. Rajeev Ram, Prof. Franz Kaertner, Prof. Judy Hoyt, Prof. Henry Smith and Prof. Erich Ippen at MIT and Prof. Krste Asanovic (UC Berkeley).

This project is investigating the integration of photonics in standard CMOS processes. Multi-processor machines have become the norm, and the demand for high-bandwidth data links is increasing.  On-chip photonic systems have the potential to greatly increase link efficiency. We are developing methods to integrate this exciting new technology from the transistor and circuit level through to the system architecture level.

Figure 1: System view of a 16-core integrated photonic on-chip network

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