Global On-chip coordination at light speed

IEEE Design and Test of Computers

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 54-65

  Li, Zheng ^a   Mohamed, Moustafa ^b   Zhou, Hongyu ^b   Shang, Li ^b   Mickelson, Alan ^b   Filipovic, Dejan ^b   Vachharajani, Manish ^b   Park, Wounjhang ^b   Sun, Yihe ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

design and test; multicore; nanophotonics; network on chip; on chip communication

Indexed keywords

LOW POWER; LOW-LATENCY; MANY-CORE; MULTI CORE; MULTICORE CHIPS; NETWORK ON CHIP; ON CHIP COMMUNICATION; ON CHIPS;

DESIGN; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 77954839876     PISSN: 07407475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MDT.2010.75     Document Type: Article

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