Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors
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The Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors [1] ( POEM) is DARPA program that addressed electrical communications link limitations by developing chip-scale and integrated photonic technology , enables seamless intrachip and offchip photonic communications that provide the required bandwidth with low energy/bit. "The POEM program will exploit wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), allowing much higher bandwidth capacity per link, which is imperative to meeting the communication needs of future microprocessors. Such a capability would propel the microprocessor onto a new performance trajectory and impact the actual runtime performance of DoD-relevant computing tasks for power-starved embedded applications and supercomputing" .For realizing POEM technology CMOS and DRAM-compatible photonic links should operate at high bit-rates with very low power dissipation. POEM should demonstrate photonic technologies that can be integrated within embedded microprocessors and enable seamless, energy-efficient, high-capacity communications within and between the microprocessor and DRAM.
External links
- https://www.darpa.mil/program/photonically-optimized-embedded-microprocessors DARPA , Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors.
- https://www.colorado.edu/ecee/2016/04/20/team-photonically-optimized-embedded-microprocessors-poem University of Colorado, Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors
- http://web.mit.edu/notaros/www/research.html MIT Photonic Microsystems Group, Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory
- https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/Data/107122.html Berkley , Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
- https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-02-19 DARPA , News and events Electricity, Light, Join Forces to Advance Computing