Title
Architecting a computer with a full optical RAM
Date Issued
02 February 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Orosa L.
Azevedo R.
University of Campinas
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
On-chip photonics has gained attention in research for high-speed processor communication networks, and recent developments in optical fabrication techniques and data buffering has offered new opportunities for processor systems. In this work, we evaluate a processor with a full optical main memory system. We design it using recent optical devices that leverages the high-bandwidth optical capabilities to obtain low memory access latency, similar to those in state of the art L2 caches. This characteristic enables the possibility of eliminating the second level of caches, saving processor area. Experimental results show the average speedup is ×1.34 with SPEC2006 and ×1.80 with irregular applications.
Start page
716
End page
719
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Óptica Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85015343165
ISBN
9781509061136
ISBN of the container
978-150906113-6
DOI of the container
10.1109/ICECS.2016.7841302
Conference
2016 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2016
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