Light up the Future of Silicon Microprocessors
For decades, the performance of Si microprocessors has increased exponentially following "Moore's Law" by shrinking the dimensions of transistors. However, the progress in microchip performance has become stagnant since 2004 despite the continued device dimension shrinkage mainly due...
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| author | Liu, Jifeng Michel, Jurgen Beals, Mark A. Kimerling, Lionel C. |
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| description | For decades, the performance of Si microprocessors has increased exponentially following "Moore's Law" by shrinking the dimensions of transistors. However, the progress in microchip performance has become stagnant since 2004 despite the continued device dimension shrinkage mainly due to power consumption and latency issues in traditional electronic interconnects that ended clock frequency scaling. It has become increasingly clear that parallelism is replacing traditional clock frequency scaling, and electronic-photonic synergy that takes the advantage of high bandwidth and energy-efficient photonic interconnects, is the key to high functionality extension of Moore's Law. We present an overview on the recent progress in Si photonic devices and their integration with CMOS fabrication process, including high performance waveguides, couplers, filters, modulators and photodetectors on a Si platform. Photonic data links based on these integrated photonic devices provide large bandwidth and low energy consumption for future generations of microprocessors. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/796932022-10-02T07:19:29Z Light up the Future of Silicon Microprocessors Liu, Jifeng Michel, Jurgen Beals, Mark A. Kimerling, Lionel C. MIT Materials Research Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Microphotonics Center Liu, Jifeng Beals, Mark A. Michel, Jurgen Kimerling, Lionel C. For decades, the performance of Si microprocessors has increased exponentially following "Moore's Law" by shrinking the dimensions of transistors. However, the progress in microchip performance has become stagnant since 2004 despite the continued device dimension shrinkage mainly due to power consumption and latency issues in traditional electronic interconnects that ended clock frequency scaling. It has become increasingly clear that parallelism is replacing traditional clock frequency scaling, and electronic-photonic synergy that takes the advantage of high bandwidth and energy-efficient photonic interconnects, is the key to high functionality extension of Moore's Law. We present an overview on the recent progress in Si photonic devices and their integration with CMOS fabrication process, including high performance waveguides, couplers, filters, modulators and photodetectors on a Si platform. Photonic data links based on these integrated photonic devices provide large bandwidth and low energy consumption for future generations of microprocessors. United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Electronic and Photonic Integrated Circuit (EPIC) Program United States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative 2013-07-24T18:13:38Z 2013-07-24T18:13:38Z 2009 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1938-5862 1938-6737 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79693 Liu, Jifeng, Mark Beals, Jurgen Michel, and Lionel Kimerling. “Light up the Future of Silicon Microprocessors.” In ECS Transactions, 17-28. © 2009 ECS - The Electrochemical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-6189 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1.3118927 ECS Transactions Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf The Electrochemical Society MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Liu, Jifeng Michel, Jurgen Beals, Mark A. Kimerling, Lionel C. Light up the Future of Silicon Microprocessors |
| title | Light up the Future of Silicon Microprocessors |
| title_full | Light up the Future of Silicon Microprocessors |
| title_fullStr | Light up the Future of Silicon Microprocessors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Light up the Future of Silicon Microprocessors |
| title_short | Light up the Future of Silicon Microprocessors |
| title_sort | light up the future of silicon microprocessors |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79693 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-6189 |
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