research-article

Offline Optimization of Wavelength Allocation and Laser Power in Nanophotonic Interconnects

Authors:

Cedric Killian,

Sebastien Le Beux,

Daniel Chillet,

Olivier Sentieys,

Ian O’connorAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), Volume 14, Issue 2

Article No.: 24, Pages 1 - 19

https://doi.org/10.1145/3178453

Published: 12 July 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC) is a promising communication medium for large-scale multiprocessor systems-on-chips. Indeed, ONoC can outperform classical electrical NoCs in terms of energy efficiency and bandwidth density, in particular, because this medium can support multiple transactions at the same time on different wavelengths by using Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). However, multiple signals sharing simultaneously the same part of a waveguide can lead to inter-channel crosstalk noise. This problem impacts the signal-to-noise ratio of the optical signals, which leads to an increase in the Bit Error Rate (BER) at the receiver side. If a specific BER is targeted, an increase of laser power should be necessary to satisfy the SNR. In this context, an important issue is to evaluate the laser power needed to satisfy the various desired communication bandwidths based on the BER performance requirements. In this article, we propose an off-line approach that concurrently optimizes the laser power scaling and execution time of a global application. A set of different levels of power is introduced for each laser, to ensure that optical signals can be emitted with just-enough power to ensure targeted BER. As a result, most promising solutions are highlighted for mapping a defined application onto a 16-core ring-based WDM ONoC.

References

[1]

A. K. Dutta et al. 2004. WDM Technologies: Optical Networks. Academic Press.

[2]

M. Bahadori, S. Rumley, D. Nikolova, and K. Bergman. 2016. Comprehensive design space exploration of silicon photonic interconnects. J. Lightwave Technol. 34, 12 (June 2016).

[3]

C. Batten, A. Joshi, V. Stojanovic, and K. Asanovic. 2012. Designing chip-level nanophotonic interconnection networks. IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Top. Circuits Syst. 2, 2 (June 2012), 137--153.

[4]

C. Chen, J. L. Abelln, and A. Joshi. 2015. Managing laser power in silicon-photonic NoC through cache and NoC reconfiguration. IEEE Trans. Comput.-Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 34, 6 (June 2015), 972--985.

[5]

C. Chen, T. Zhang, P. Contu, J. Klamkin, A. K. Coskun, and A. Joshi. 2014. Sharing and placement of on-chip laser sources in silicon-photonic NoCs. In 2014 8th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NoCS’14). 88--95.

[6]

Alessandro Cilardo and Edoardo Fusella. 2016. Design automation for application-specific on-chip interconnects: A survey. Integr. VLSI J. 52 (2016), 102--121.

Digital Library

[7]

Abdullah Demir, Guowei Zhao, Sabine Freisem, Xiaohang Liu, and Dennis G. Deppe. 2011. Scaling properties of lithographic VCSELs. In SPIE OPTO, International Society for Optics and Photonics, 79520O--79520O.

[8]

P. Dong, W. Qian, S. Liao, H. Liang, C. C. Kung, N. N. Feng, R. Shafiiha, J. Fong, D. Feng, A. V. Krishnamoorthy, and M. Asghari. 2010. Low loss silicon waveguides for application of optical interconnects. In IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals 2010. 191--192.

[9]

E. Fusella et al. 2016. PhoNoCMap: An application mapping tool for photonic networks-on-chip. In 2016 Design, Automation 8 Test in Europe Conference 8 Exhibition (DATE’16). 289--292.

Digital Library

[10]

E. Fusella and A. Cilardo. 2016. Lighting up on-chip communications with photonics: Design tradeoffs for optical NoC architectures. IEEE Circuits Syst. Mag. 16, 3 (third quarter, 2016), 4--14.

[11]

H. Zang et al. 2000. A review of routing and wavelength assignment approaches for wavelength-routed optical WDM networks. Opti. Netw. Mag. (2000), 47--60.

[12]

K. Deb et al. 2000. A fast elitist non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm for multi-objective optimization: NSGA-II. In International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature. Springer, 849--858.

Digital Library

[13]

M. Kennedy and A. K. Kodi. 2017. Laser pooling: Static and dynamic laser power allocation for on-chip optical interconnects. J. Lightwave Technol. 35, 15 (Aug 2017), 3159--3167.

[14]

L. H. K. Duong et al. 2016. Coherent and incoherent crosstalk noise analyses in interchip/intrachip optical interconnection networks. IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst. (July 2016), 2475--2487.

[15]

F. Lan, R. Wu, C. Zhang, Y. Pan, and K. t. T. Cheng. 2017. DLPS: Dynamic laser power scaling for optical network-on-chip. In 2017 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC’17). 726--731.

Digital Library

[16]

Sébastien Le Beux, Hui Li, Ian O’Connor, Kazem Cheshmi, Xuchen Liu, Jelena Trajkovic, and Gabriela Nicolescu. 2014. Chameleon: Channel efficient optical network-on-chip. In Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation 8 Test in Europe. European Design and Automation Association, 304.

Digital Library

[17]

C. Li, R. Bai, A. Shafik, E. Z. Tabasy, G. Tang, C. Ma, C. H. Chen, Z. Peng, M. Fiorentino, P. Chiang, and S. Palermo. 2013. A ring-resonator-based silicon photonics transceiver with bias-based wavelength stabilization and adaptive-power-sensitivity receiver. In 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers. 124--125.

[18]

J. Luo, A. Elantably, V. D. Pham, C. Killian, D. Chillet, S. Le Beux, O. Sentieys, and I. O’Connor. 2017. Performance and energy aware wavelength allocation on ring-based WDM 3D optical NoC. In Design, Automation Test in Europe Conference Exhibition (DATE’17), 2017. 1372--1377.

Digital Library

[19]

M. Nikdast et al. 2015. Crosstalk noise in WDM-based optical networks-on-chip: A formal study and comparison. IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst. 23, 11 (2015), 2552--2565.

Digital Library

[20]

Enrico Macii et al. 2004. Ultra Low-Power Electronics and Design. Springer.

[21]

Nir Magen, Avinoam Kolodny, Uri Weiser, and Nachum Shamir. 2004. Interconnect-power dissipation in a microprocessor. In Proceedings of the 2004 International Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction. ACM, 7--13.

Digital Library

[22]

J. D. Owens, W. J. Dally, R. Ho, D. N. Jayasimha, S. W. Keckler, and L. S. Peh. 2007. Research challenges for on-chip interconnection networks. IEEE Micro 27, 5 (Sept 2007), 96--108.

Digital Library

[23]

Roberto Rodes, Jesper Bevensee Jensen, Darko Zibar, Christian Neumeyr, Enno Rönneberg, Juergen Rosskopf, Markus Ortsiefer, and Idelfonso Tafur Monroy. 2011. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser based digital coherent detection for multigigabit long reach passive optical links. Microw. Opti. Technol. Lett. 53, 11 (2011), 2462--2464.

[24]

S. Le Beux et al. 2011. Optical ring network-on-chip (ORNoC): Architecture and design methodology. In Design, Automation 8 Test in Europe. 1--6.

[25]

S. Xiao et al. 2007. Modeling and measurement of losses in silicon-on-insulator resonators and bends. Opt. Exp. 15, 17 (2007), 10553--10561.

[26]

C. Sciancalepore, B. B. Bakir, X. Letartre, J. Harduin, N. Olivier, C. Seassal, J. M. Fedeli, and P. Viktorovitch. 2012. CMOS-compatible ultra-compact 1.55 um emitting VCSELs using double photonic crystal mirrors. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 24, 6 (March 2012), 455--457.

[27]

S. V. R. Chittamuru et al. 2015. Improving crosstalk resilience with wavelength spacing in photonic crossbar-based network-on-chip architectures. In IEEE 58th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS’15). 1--4.

[28]

T. E. Thomas and K. Bala. 1999. Multiwavelength optical networks: a layered approach. Prentice Hall, 1st edition (May 13, 1999).

[29]

Xiaowen Wu, Jiang Xu, Yaoyao Ye, Zhehui Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, and Xuan Wang. 2014. SUOR: Sectioned undirectional optical ring for chip multiprocessor. ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst. 10, 4 (2014), 29.

Digital Library

[30]

X. Wang et al. 2015. RPNoC: A ring-based packet-switched optical network-on-chip. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 27, 4 (2015), 423--426.

[31]

L. Zhou and A. K. Kodi. 2013. PROBE: Prediction-based optical bandwidth scaling for energy-efficient NoCs. In 2013 7th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NoCS’13). 1--8.

Cited By

Krayem ISosa JKillian CChillet D(2023)Analytical Model for Performance Evaluation of Token-Passing-Based WiNoCsIEEE Design & Test10.1109/MDAT.2023.330973040:6(136-148)Online publication date: Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/MDAT.2023.3309730
Tan MXu JLiu SFeng JZhang HYao CChen SGuo HHan GWen ZChen BHe YZheng XMing DTu YFu QQi NLi DGeng LWen SYang FHe HLiu FXue HWang YQiu CMi GLi YChang TLai MZhang LHao QQin M(2023)Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutionsFrontiers of Optoelectronics10.1007/s12200-022-00055-y16:1Online publication date: 20-Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-022-00055-y
Narayan AThonnart YVivet PCoskun A(2021)PROWAVES: Proactive Runtime Wavelength Selection for Energy-Efficient Photonic NoCsIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems10.1109/TCAD.2020.303732740:10(2156-2169)Online publication date: Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2020.3037327
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Offline Optimization of Wavelength Allocation and Laser Power in Nanophotonic Interconnects
1. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Network on chip

Recommendations

Approximate nanophotonic interconnects
NOCS '19: Proceedings of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip

The energy consumption of manycore is dominated by data movement, which calls for energy-efficient and high-bandwidth interconnects. Integrated optics is promising technology to overcome the bandwidth limitations of electrical interconnects. However, it ...
Crosstalk-aware GA-based wavelength allocation method for ring-based optical network-on-chip
ACM TURC '19: Proceedings of the ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China

Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC) is a promising communication architecture which supports multiple communication tasks communicating at the same time at different wavelengths, i.e., Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. However, crosstalk is ...
Thermal-sensitive design and power optimization for a 3D torus-based optical NoC
ICCAD '17: Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design

In order to overcome limitations of traditional electronic interconnects in terms of power efficiency and bandwidth density, optical networks-on-chip (NoCs) based on 3D integrated silicon photonics have been proposed as an emerging on-chip communication ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems Volume 14, Issue 2

Special Issue on Frontiers of Hardware and Algorithms for On-chip Learning, Special Issue on Silicon Photonics and Regular Papers

April 2018

322 pages

ISSN:1550-4832

EISSN:1550-4840

DOI:10.1145/3227199

Editor:
Yuan Xie
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Issue’s Table of Contents

Copyright © 2018 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Journal Family

ACM Journals for the Design of Smart and Connected Systems

Publication History

Published: 12 July 2018

Accepted: 01 January 2018

Revised: 01 November 2017

Received: 01 July 2017

Published in JETC Volume 14, Issue 2

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article
Research
Refereed

Funding Sources

National Research Agency in the Investing for the Future program
China Scholarship Council
COMIN Labs excellence laboratory

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

9
Total Citations
View Citations
178
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)9
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 15 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Krayem ISosa JKillian CChillet D(2023)Analytical Model for Performance Evaluation of Token-Passing-Based WiNoCsIEEE Design & Test10.1109/MDAT.2023.330973040:6(136-148)Online publication date: Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/MDAT.2023.3309730
Tan MXu JLiu SFeng JZhang HYao CChen SGuo HHan GWen ZChen BHe YZheng XMing DTu YFu QQi NLi DGeng LWen SYang FHe HLiu FXue HWang YQiu CMi GLi YChang TLai MZhang LHao QQin M(2023)Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutionsFrontiers of Optoelectronics10.1007/s12200-022-00055-y16:1Online publication date: 20-Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-022-00055-y
Narayan AThonnart YVivet PCoskun A(2021)PROWAVES: Proactive Runtime Wavelength Selection for Energy-Efficient Photonic NoCsIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems10.1109/TCAD.2020.303732740:10(2156-2169)Online publication date: Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2020.3037327
Bonnet BFuron TBas P(2021)Forensics Through Stega Glasses: The Case of Adversarial ImagesPattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges10.1007/978-3-030-68780-9_37(453-469)Online publication date: 10-Jan-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-68780-9_37
Wu JChen BLuo WFang Y(2020)Audio Steganography Based on Iterative Adversarial Attacks Against Convolutional Neural NetworksIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security10.1109/TIFS.2019.296376415(2282-2294)Online publication date: 7-Feb-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TIFS.2019.2963764
Li HLiu FGu HChu ZYe X(2020)A Reliability-Aware Joint Design Method of Application Mapping and Wavelength Assignment for WDM-Based Silicon Photonic Interconnects on ChipIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2020.29879288(73457-73474)Online publication date: 2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2987928
Narayan AThonnart YVivet PTortolero CCoskun A(2019)WAVES: Wavelength Selection for Power-Efficient 2.5D-Integrated Photonic NoCs2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)10.23919/DATE.2019.8715036(516-521)Online publication date: Mar-2019
https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE.2019.8715036
Chu ZLi HWei W(2019)Crosstalk-and Latency-Aware Wavelength Assignment Method for WDM-based Optical Network-on-Chip2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT)10.1109/ICCT46805.2019.8947302(719-723)Online publication date: Oct-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCT46805.2019.8947302
Luo JPham VKillian CChillet DO'Connor ISentieys OLe Beux S(2018)Run-Time management of energy-performance trade-off in Optical Network-on-Chip2018 Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS)10.1109/DCIS.2018.8681477(1-6)Online publication date: Nov-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/DCIS.2018.8681477

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Article

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Issue’s Table of Contents