Integrated Optical Interconnect Architectures for Embedded Systems

Preface. - Basics for high-performance computing and optical interconnect. - Interconnect issues in high-performance computing architectures. - Technologies and building blocks for on-chip optical interconnects. - On-chip optical communication topologies. - Designing chip-level nanophotonic interconnection networks. - FONOC: a Fat-Tree based optical network-on-chip for multiprocessor system-on-chip. - On-chip optical ring bus communication architecture for heterogeneous MPSoC. - System integration and optical-enhanced MPSoC performance. - A protocol stack architecture for optical network-on-chip: Organization and performance evaluation. - Reconfigurable photonic networks on chip. - System Level Exploration for the Integration of Optical Networks on Chip in 3D MPSoC Architectures.