A survey on design and synthesis techniques for photonic integrated circuits
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A survey on design and synthesis techniques for photonic integrated circuits Sumit Sharma1 · Sudip Roy1 Accepted: 4 September 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract In recent years, silicon photonics (Si-photonics) have received significant attention among researchers due to complementary metal-oxide semiconductor compatibility, and the characteristics of high-speed and low-power dissipation. The integration of electronic and optical circuits on a single chip has opened up new directions of research in the domain of digital logic design and synthesis of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Several optical switching devices using different technologies have been designed and experimentally demonstrated, which further helps in implementing PICs. In order to efficiently design larger, complex and reliable PICs, the photonic design automation techniques are being explored as electronic design automation techniques have been investigated in case of very large-scale integration circuits. This paper presents an extensive survey of recent work reported in the literature on the domains of logic circuit design, synthesis, and physical design automation for implementing PICs. The aim of this survey is to start with the fundamental optical concepts and then move to the latest research domains of design and synthesis of PICs. Finally, we provide a discussion on the challenges and the future research directions toward practically realizing the Si-photonics and PICs. Keywords Photonic integrated circuits · MZI · Silicon photonics · Optical gates · Optical circuit design · Synthesis · CAD · Design automation Abbreviations AI Ancilla input AIG AND-inverter graph BC Beam combiner BDD Binary decision diagram * Sudip Roy [email protected] Sumit Sharma [email protected] 1
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
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BS Beam splitter CAD Computer-aided-design CLA Carry-lookahead adder CMOS Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor CSA Carry skip adder DEMUX Demultiplexer DNN Deep neural network EDA Electronic design automation EO Electro-optic ESOP Exclusive-sum-of-product GeSi Germanium-on-silicon GO Garbage output MEMS Microelectro-mechanical-system MRR Micro-ring resonator MUX Multiplexer MZI Mach–Zehnder interferometer OC Optical components OIG OR-Inverter graph PIC Photonic integrated circuit RCA Ripple carry adder SiN Silicon nitride SiNOI Silicon nitride-on-insulator SOA Semiconductor optical amplifier SOI Silicon-on-insulator SOP Sum-of-product TO Thermo-optic TOAD Terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer VG Virtual gates XGM Cross-gain modulation XPM Cross-phase modulation
1 Introduction In the past few decades, Moore’s law [1] has ruled the very large-scale integration (VLSI) industry. However, it is reaching its limit due to continuous growth in the transistor number on a chip. Moreover, the presence of a large n
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