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Summary: Predictions of CMOS Compatible On-Chip Optical Interconnect
Guoqing Chen, Hui Chen, Mikhail Haurylau, Nicholas Nelson
Philippe M. Fauchet, and Eby G. Friedman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
David Albonesi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
ABSTRACT
Interconnect has become a primary bottleneck in inte-
grated circuit design. As CMOS technology is scaled,
it will become increasingly difficult for conventional
copper interconnect to satisfy the design requirements
of delay, power, bandwidth, and noise. On-chip op-
tical interconnect has been considered as a potential
substitute for electrical interconnect in the past two
decades. In this paper, predictions of the performance
of CMOS compatible optical devices are made based
on current state-of-art optical technologies. Electrical
and optical interconnects are compared for various de-
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