There has been a recent upsurge of interest in applying Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) techniques to optical networks. Conventional spreading codes for OCDMA, known as optical orthogonal codes (OOC) spread the signal in the time domain only, which often results in the requirement of a large chip rate. By spreading in both time and wavelength using two-dimensional OOCs, the chip rate can b...

Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC) is a promising emerging technology, which can solve the bottlenecks faced by electrical on-chip interconnection. However, the existing proposals of ONoC are mostly built on fixed topologies, which are not flexible enough to support various applications. To make full use of the limited resource and provide a more efficient approach for resource allocation, RONoC (R...

With the increasing complexity of Multi-Core System-on-Chip (MCSoC) and its communications requirement, Network-on-Chip (NoC) has emerged as a solution of nonscalable shared bus schemes currently used in MCSoC implementation. Recently, a new NoC structure based on WKrecursive network was analyzed and compared to 2D Mesh structure based on several performance metrics such as packet losses, throu...

In heterogeneous tiled System-on-Chip architectures a Network-on-Chip is used to transport messages between processing elements. A reconfigurable network interface is used to connect the processing elements to the Network-on-Chip, converting the messages between both domains. This paper introduces the Hydra: a network interface for the MONTIUM TP, a coarse-grained reconfigurable processor desig...

Networks on Chip (NoC) has emerged as the paradigm for designing scalable communication architecture for Systems on Chips (SoCs). Avoiding the conditions that can lead to deadlocks in the network is critical for using NoCs in real designs. Methods that can lead to deadlock-free operation with minimum power and area overhead are important for designing application-specific NoCs. The deadlocks th...

To allow fast communication—at several Gb/s—of multimedia content among processors and memories in a multi-processor system-on-chip, a new approach is emerging in literature: Wireless Network-on-Chip (WiNoC). With reference to this scenario, this paper presents the design of the key element of the WiNoC: the antenna. Specifically, a bow-tie antenna is proposed, which operates at mm-waves and ca...

Lab-on-a-chip is an enabling technology that has influenced areas from biology, drug research to the development of point-of-care devices. The essential of Lab-on-a-chip technology is the "mobile liquid" in channels with dimensions of tens to hundreds of micrometres, for which a liquid pumping system generally is indispensable. We review the methods for pumping fluids on biomedical lab-on-a-chi...

Network-on-Chip (NoC) has recently emerged as an efficient communication solution for the System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Design space exploration and performance evaluation are the most essential task in NoC design. In this paper, an ABC based design space exploration framework for the NoC design is proposed. The objective of the design space exploration is to minimize the total energy consumptio...