Coupled Data Communication Techniques for High-Performance and Low-Power Computing

Wafer-scale integration has long been the dream of system designers. Instead of chopping a wafer into a few hundred or a few thousand chips, one would just connect the circuits on the entire wafer. What an enormous capability wafer-scale integration would offer: all those millions of circuits connected by high-speed on-chip wires. Unfortunately, the best known optical systems can provide suitably—ne resolution only over an area much smaller than a whole wafer. There is no known way to patte...