A comprehensive electro-optical model for silicon photonic switches

Xuanqi Chen; Zhifei Wang; Yi Shing Chang; Jiang Xu; Peng Yang; Zhehui Wang; Luan H.K. Duong

doi:10.1109/isvlsi.2018.00024

A comprehensive electro-optical model for silicon photonic switches

Xuanqi Chen
, Zhifei Wang
, Yi Shing Chang
, Jiang Xu
, Peng Yang
, Zhehui Wang
, Luan H.K. Duong

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

Optical networks are revolutionizing computing systems by improving the energy efficiency, bandwidth, and latency of data movements. Silicon photonic switches, such as microresonator and Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI), are the basic building blocks of optical networks. This work proposes a SPICE-compatible electro-optical co-simulation model, BOSIM, to systematically study silicon photonic \linebreak switches using PN, PIN, and MIS capacitor device technologies. BOSIM holistically models both transient and steady-state properties such as switching speed, power, transmission spectrum, area and carrier distribution. BOSIM is validated by the measured data from eight research groups and companies. Compared to microresonator, BOSIM shows that MZI can provide 1.24X performance for a 128-core multiprocessor using photonic network-on-chip but cost 2.20X energy and 7.3X area.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	76-81
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781538670996
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/isvlsi.2018.00024
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Event	17th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 9 Jul 2018 → 11 Jul 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI
Volume	2018-July
ISSN (Print)	2159-3469
ISSN (Electronic)	2159-3477

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Conference	17th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	9/07/18 → 11/07/18

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Keywords

BOSIM
Electro Optical Model
Optical Network
SPICE
Steady And Transient State Analysis

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Chen, X., Wang, Z., Chang, Y. S., Xu, J., Yang, P., Wang, Z., & Duong, L. H. K. (2018). A comprehensive electro-optical model for silicon photonic switches. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018 (pp. 76-81). (Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI; Vol. 2018-July). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/isvlsi.2018.00024

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Proceedings - 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018. IEEE Computer Society, 2018. p. 76-81 (Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI; Vol. 2018-July).

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