iFROST: A CAD tool for modeling and simulation of optical interconnects

The design of high-performance, low-cost optical interconnects requires flexible, reliable, and computationally efficient computer-aided design tools. Optimizing component parameter specifications to achieve high manufacturing yield, long life, and low cost requires a large number of simulation runs. In addition, parallel optical interconnects require that statistical variation in the component parameters, timing skew, and crosstalk between the different channels of the interconnect be simulated. Due to the required simulation of statistical variation in component parameters, a time-efficient simulation approach such as the quasianalytical simulation methodology is vital. Furthermore, the adoption of a block-oriented simulation environment facilitates mixed-level simulation, which reduces the computational requirements of the bus simulation while achieving the required accuracy in the simulation of all bus components. The chosen component models must also be computationally efficient while retaining the required accuracy through inclusion of the important performance aspects of the modeled components. To achieve computational efficiency and correspondence between system performance and component specifications, the models should be behavioral in nature while maintaining the required accuracy. iFROST (illinois FibeR-optic and Optoelectronic Systems Toolkit) is a CAD tool with which this methodology is implemented.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Whitlock, Brent Kevin

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kang, Sung Mo

• Engineering, Electronics and Electrical
• Physics, Optics

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Whitlock, Brent Kevin

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591199635
AAI9712481
(UMI)AAI9712481

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22618