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SWIFTNoC: A Reconfigurable Silicon-Photonic Network with Multicast-Enabled Channel Sharing for Multicore Architectures

SWIFTNoC: A Reconfigurable Silicon-Photonic Network with Multicast-Enabled Channel Sharing for... SWIFTNoC: A Reconfigurable Silicon-Photonic Network with Multicast-Enabled Channel Sharing for Multicore Architectures SAI VINEEL REDDY CHITTAMURU, Colorado State University SRINIVAS DESAI, Broadcom Ltd. SUDEEP PASRICHA, Colorado State University On-chip communication is widely considered to be one of the major performance bottlenecks in contemporary chip multiprocessors (CMPs). With recent advances in silicon nanophotonics, photonics-based network-onchip (NoC) architectures are being considered as a viable solution to support communication in future CMPs as they can enable higher bandwidth and lower power dissipation compared to traditional electrical NoCs. In this article, we present SwiftNoC, a novel reconfigurable silicon-photonic NoC architecture that features improved multicast-enabled channel sharing, as well as dynamic re-prioritization and exchange of bandwidth between clusters of cores running multiple applications, to increase channel utilization and system performance. Experimental results show that SwiftNoC improves throughput by up to 25.4× while reducing latency by up to 72.4% and energy-per-bit by up to 95% over state-of-the-art solutions. CCS Concepts: architectures; technologies r Networks Network on chip; r Computer systems organization Multicore r Hardware Photonic and optical interconnect; Emerging optical and photonic Additional Key Words and Phrases: Network-on-chip (NoC), photonic channel sharing, arbitration ACM Reference Format: Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru, Srinivas Desai, and Sudeep http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC) Association for Computing Machinery

SWIFTNoC: A Reconfigurable Silicon-Photonic Network with Multicast-Enabled Channel Sharing for Multicore Architectures

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 2017 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
1550-4832
DOI
10.1145/3060517
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Abstract

SWIFTNoC: A Reconfigurable Silicon-Photonic Network with Multicast-Enabled Channel Sharing for Multicore Architectures SAI VINEEL REDDY CHITTAMURU, Colorado State University SRINIVAS DESAI, Broadcom Ltd. SUDEEP PASRICHA, Colorado State University On-chip communication is widely considered to be one of the major performance bottlenecks in contemporary chip multiprocessors (CMPs). With recent advances in silicon nanophotonics, photonics-based network-onchip (NoC) architectures are being considered as a viable solution to support communication in future CMPs as they can enable higher bandwidth and lower power dissipation compared to traditional electrical NoCs. In this article, we present SwiftNoC, a novel reconfigurable silicon-photonic NoC architecture that features improved multicast-enabled channel sharing, as well as dynamic re-prioritization and exchange of bandwidth between clusters of cores running multiple applications, to increase channel utilization and system performance. Experimental results show that SwiftNoC improves throughput by up to 25.4× while reducing latency by up to 72.4% and energy-per-bit by up to 95% over state-of-the-art solutions. CCS Concepts: architectures; technologies r Networks Network on chip; r Computer systems organization Multicore r Hardware Photonic and optical interconnect; Emerging optical and photonic Additional Key Words and Phrases: Network-on-chip (NoC), photonic channel sharing, arbitration ACM Reference Format: Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru, Srinivas Desai, and Sudeep

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ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jul 11, 2017

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