OEIL

Optical and Electrical Interface and Link Analysis Environment

Interconnects are key technologies in modern information systems, and electrical interconnects and optical interconnects are the two major choices. While electrical interconnects use technologies such as low swing and differential pair to achieve high speed and low power, optical interconnects promise high bandwidth, low latency, and pin reduction.

OEIL is a modeling and analysis environment developed for optical and electrical interconnects and interfaces. It provides comprehensive analytical models for the two types of interconnects in terms of power consumption, bandwidth density, latency, crosstalk noises, attenuation, and sensitivity. The analytical models are verified by multiple published implementations. The following diagram is an overview of OEIL.

OEIL

Project Member: Shixi Chen, Xuanqi Chen, Jiang Xu, Jun Feng, Jiaxu Zhang, Zhongyuan Tian, Xiao Li

Maintained by: Shixi Chen(schenax@connect.ust.hk). If there is any inquiry or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Past Member: Zhehui Wang, Zhifei, Wang, Zhe Wang, Xuan Wang, Yaoyao Ye, Mahdi Nikdast, Xiaowen Wu, Luan H.K. Duong, Peng Yang, Haoran Li

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AGREEMENT

OEIL is made openly available under the following license. Please cite the following paper if it is used.

  • Zhehui Wang, Jiang Xu, Peng Yang, Xuan Wang, Zhe Wang, Luan H.K. Duong, Zhifei Wang, Rafael Kioji Vivas Maeda, Haoran Li, “Improve Chip Pin Performance Using Optical Interconnects,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol.24, no.4, pp.1574-1587, April 2016. [PDF]

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