Power and Performance Comparison of Electronic 2D-NoC and Opto-Electronic 2D-NoC

Nowadays, increasing emerging application complexity and improvement in process technology have enabled the design of many-core processors with tens to hundreds of cores on a single chip. Photonic Network-on-Chips (PNoCs) have recently been proposed as an alternative approach with high performance-per-watt characteristics for intra-chip communication. In this thesis, we present a performance exploration of Hybrid Photonic Network-on-chip and conventional electronic Network-on-Chip to show the benefit of using photonic technologies.