Pub Date : 2024-07-30DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2024.3435721
Hui Li;Jiahe Zhao;Feiyang Liu
With the development of silicon photonic interconnects, Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC) becomes promising for multi-core/many-core communication. In ONoCs, both routing and wavelength assignment have an impact on the communication reliability and performance. However, the interactive impact of the routing and wavelength assignment is rarely considered. To fill this gap, this work proposes an adaptive and holistic method of routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) for ONoCs. Routing and wavelength assignment is treated as a whole problem and participate in the same Markov decision process. Two corresponding implementation methods, i.e., distributed and centralized, are proposed, by using intelligent learning algorithms to process and learn the dynamic on-chip network information in multi-dimensional. Instead of considering routing and wavelength assignment separately in steps, the evaluation results show that the proposed holistic method improves by 2.58 dB, 9.21%, and 53.26% in the aspects of OSNR, waiting delay, and wavelength utilization respectively, in cost of 16.15% loss of load balancing. As for the distributed method and centralized method, the distributed method improves by 0.37 dB and 0.69% in the aspects of OSNR and waiting delay, but the centralized method improves by 13.84% and 4.46% in the aspects of load balancing and wavelength utilization.
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Biological brains are increasingly taken as a guide toward more efficient forms of computing. The latest frontier considers the use of spiking neural-network-based neuromorphic processors for near-sensor data processing, in order to fit the tight power and resource budgets of edge computing devices. However, a prevailing focus on brain-inspired computing and storage primitives in the design of neuromorphic systems is currently bringing a fundamental bottleneck to the forefront: chip-scale communications. While communication architectures (typically, a network-on-chip) are generally inspired by, or even borrowed from, general purpose computing, neuromorphic communications exhibit unique characteristics: they consist of the event-driven routing of small amounts of information to a large number of destinations within tight area and power budgets. This article aims at an inflection point in network-on-chip design for brain-inspired communications, revolving around the combination of cost-effective and robust asynchronous design, architecture specialization for short messaging and lightweight hardware support for tree-based multicast. When validated with functional spiking neural network traffic, the proposed NoC delivers energy savings ranging from 42% to 71% over a state-of-the-art NoC used in a real multi-core neuromorphic processor for edge computing applications.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2024.3432458
Sherin A. Thomas;Suyash Kushwaha;Rohit Sharma;Devarshi Mrinal Das
This paper presents a novel 3D folded capacitive synaptic crossbar array designed for in-memory computing architectures. In this architecture, the bitline is folded over the wordline to enhance the synaptic density. The proposed folded capacitive crossbar array ( $FC^{2}A$