Crosstalk-Aware Automatic Topology Customization and Optimization for Wavelength-Routed Optical NoCs

Optical network-on-chip (ONoC) is an emerging upgrade for electronic network-on-chip (ENoC). As a kind of ONoC, wavelength-routed ONoC (WRONoC) shows ultrahigh bandwidth and ultralow latency in data communication. Manually designed WRONoC topologies typically reserve all to all links. This causes the waste of resources. Topology customization for each individual communication network can save resources, but requires automation for efficient design. The state-of-the-art design automation method is not efficient and does not support crosstalk analysis and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) optimization. Moreover, the state of the art does not consider the physical locations of the data sending/receiving ports, causing unavoidable detours and crossings in the physical layout. In this work, we present FAST+: an automatic topology customization and optimization method. Compared with the state of the art, FAST+ operates much more efficiently and proposes a concrete router-level crosstalk-analysis method and a novel SNR optimization algorithm. This work also provides solutions to avoid detours and crossings in the physical layout. When SNR optimization is not enabled, experimental results show that FAST+ runs thousands times faster than the state of the art on average while providing multiple better or equally good topologies regarding resource usage and the worst case insertion loss. When SNR optimization is enabled, FAST+ provides
$1.75\times $
better worst case SNR on average after the optimization while not sacrificing resource usage and the worst case insertion loss.