CAREER: Mixed-Signal Photonic Integrated Circuits for Energy-Efficient High-Speed Data Interfaces

职业：用于节能高速数据接口的混合信号光子集成电路

• 批准号: 1727447
• 负责人: Vishal Saxena
• 金额: $ 45.29万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Idaho
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-17 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1727447&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Mixed; Signal; Photonic; Integrated

Proposal No.: 1454411 CAREER: Mixed Signal Photonics Integrated Circuits for Energy-Efficient High-Speed Data InterfacesVishal Saxena (Boise State University)Abstract: This research harnesses photonics to satisfy ever-growing government, industry, and consumer needs for data bandwidth, while significantly reducing the increasingly voracious energy footprint that accompanies Internet cloud use. Photonics uses light instead of electronics to perform a variety of functions such as information processing and transfer. While most of us still work in offices and meet friends in person, mobile and networking device capability has enabled massive online business and social transaction growth. The Internet and its cloud-based services are used for production systems, banking, entertainment, social interaction, information distribution and research. Resulting information accumulation is fueling the rise of "big data," as well as the powerful correlation tools that help analysts spot financial trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and improve quality of research. More and more, we put content in the cloud for easy access from anywhere and at any time, with data growing exponentially. All this data transfer uses a surprising amount of energy. To reduce data center energy consumption while increasing data capacity by over ten fold, this research will investigate novel hybrid data communication interfaces, using light rather than electrons to process and transfer data at higher speeds. The potentially explosive increase in data rates enabled by these hybrid photonic interconnects could lead to several transformative applications, such as future exascale data centers, terabit speed local area networks, and massively-parallel computing for big data applications. These hybrid photonic interconnects will not only have a broad impact on the semiconductor industry, but also US energy sustainability and security, as more energy-efficient computing systems would reduce carbon footprint of the Internet cloud. Further, to prepare students for the workforce with the necessary skills to drive future technology, the project includes a strong educational component. Interactive learning methods will be employed to teach electronic circuits and to bring photonics to integrated circuit design. The project also incorporates a high school outreach program, with an annual Smart Environments for Sustainability-themed one-week summer camp for high school students that commits to fostering women and minority group representation in integrated circuit design.Technology development leveraging integrated photonic circuits and optical interconnects has thus far largely focused on binary communication using silicon photonic modulators. To enable future optical interconnects for higher data rates and energy-efficiency, researchers must reconsider the hybrid integrated circuit paradigm. An important technology enabler is the high-speed signal processing capability of integrated photonic devices. The research approach will first be to develop a photonic design kit with standard cell libraries and compact models to enable large scale integration of photonic devices into hybrid integrated circuits. Researchers will employ photonic device high-speed optical domain signal processing into novel circuit configurations, exploit synergistic interaction between electronic and photonic components, and form a mixed-signal photonic architecture. Next, to exploit photonics beyond binary interconnects; researchers will develop novel mixed-signal photonic data converters, which they will use to demonstrate an advanced modulation transceiver architecture that is scalable to terabits per second data rates with order-of-magnitude lower energy consumption. Research outcomes will empower integrated circuit researchers by equipping them with a new photonics expertise to tackle nano-scaled technology design challenges, where data transfer bottlenecks constrain system performance. The photonic design kit will lower industry barriers to help facilitate photonics adoption into integrated circuits; resulting mixed-signal photonic data converter architectures will set a new paradigm by achieving greater than 10 GHz sampling rates with significantly reduced energy consumption over existing complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor (CMOS)-only architectures. Researchers will broadly disseminate project results by developing online educational material for a new CMOS photonics integrated circuit design graduate course, and through international journals and conferences.

提案编号：1454411职业：混合信号光子学集成电路，用于节能高速数据互动FaceSvishal Saxena（Boise State University）摘要：这项研究可以利用光子学来满足不断增长的政府，工业和消费者对数据带宽的需求，同时大大减少了越来越多的vor vorriation Entraction Energy Energy Energy Footprintprints Internet Internet clode Internet Cround。 Photonics使用光而不是电子功能来执行各种功能，例如信息处理和传输。尽管我们大多数人仍在办公室工作并亲自结识朋友，但移动和网络设备的功能使大规模的在线业务和社会交易增长。互联网及其基于云的服务用于生产系统，银行，娱乐，社交互动，信息分布和研究。随之而来的信息积累正在推动“大数据”的兴起，以及强大的相关工具，可以帮助分析师发现财务趋势，预防疾病，打击犯罪并提高研究质量。我们越来越多地将内容放在云中，以便从任何地方和任何时候轻松访问数据，数据呈指数增长。所有这些数据传输都使用了令人惊讶的能量。为了减少数据中心的能耗，同时将数据容量提高了十倍，这项研究将研究新型混合数据通信界面，使用光而不是电子以更高的速度处理和传输数据。这些混合光子互连启用的数据速率可能会爆炸性增加，可能会导致多种变革性应用程序，例如未来的Exascale数据中心，Terabit Speed局域网以及用于大数据应用程序的大规模并行计算。这些混合光子互连不仅会对半导体行业产生广泛的影响，而且还会对美国的能源可持续性和安全性产生广泛的影响，因为更节能的计算系统将减少互联网云的碳足迹。此外，为了使学生为劳动力提供推动未来技术的必要技能，该项目包括强大的教育组成部分。将采用交互式学习方法来教授电子电路并将光子学带入集成电路设计。该项目还纳入了一个高中宣传计划，并为可持续性主题的为期一周的夏令营提供了年度智能环境，适用于高中生，该训练会致力于培养综合电路设计中的妇女和少数群体的代表性。技术开发利用综合光子电路和光学互连，因此很大程度上侧重于使用二元交流的二元通信，使用了二元通信，使用了硅硅光子模型。为了使未来的光学互连以提高数据速率和能源效率，研究人员必须重新考虑混合综合电路范式。重要的技术推动器是集成光子设备的高速信号处理能力。研究方法将首先是开发具有标准细胞库和紧凑模型的光子设计套件，以使光子设备大规模整合到混合综合电路中。研究人员将使用光子设备高速光学域信号处理进行新的电路配置，利用电子和光子组件之间的协同相互作用，并形成混合信号光子体系结构。接下来，利用超出二进制互连的光子学；研究人员将开发新型的混合信号光子数据转换器，他们将使用该转换器来证明高级调制的收集器体系结构，该结构可扩展到每秒数据速率，并具有较低的能量消耗。研究成果将通过为他们提供新的光子学专业知识来应对纳米级技术设计挑战，从而增强综合巡回赛研究人员的能力，其中数据传输瓶颈会限制系统的性能。光子设计套件将降低行业障碍，以帮助促进光子学对综合电路的采用；产生的混合信号光子数据转换器架构将通过达到超过10 GHz采样率来设定新的范式，而与现有的互补金属？氧化物？半导体（CMOS）仅构建体相比，能源消耗大大降低。研究人员将通过为新的CMOS Photonics集成电路设计研究生课程以及通过国际期刊和会议开发在线教育材料来广泛传播项目结果。