
Intra-/Inter-Chip Optical Communications 299
FIGURE 7.37
Power consumption (right axis) and signal propagation delay (left axis) for an
EI as a function of the length. Also the data for two types of OI considering as
the propagation channel a polymer or a silicon waveguide and a interconnec-
tion length equal to 17.6 mm (chip edge length in the ITRS projected chip)
[42] are shown.
cations will consume power lower than 17–18 mW for technologies of 0.18 μm.
Furthermore, smaller integration technologies (0.05 μm) are selected, the re-
duction in power should be reduced drastically to values around 10 μW .These
values require the design and development of ...