Unconventional Fabrics, Architectures, and Models for Future Multi-core Systems

Massive level of integration is making modern multi-core chips all-pervasive in several domains. Hence, high performance, robustness, and low power are crucial for the widespread adoption of such platforms. However, achieving all these goals forces us to re-think the basis of designing multi-core systems at nanoscale, starting with the very substrate we need to use to implement such systems in the future, particularly for nanowire (or carbon nanotube) based on-chip interconnect obtained through self-assembly techniques. Due to the lack of control over these processes, such interconnects are expected to be largely unstructured [1][2][3]. While large unstructured networks are easy to fabricate, they require unconventional architectures and communication paradigms. For instance, by getting inspiration from many natural systems with network-based architectures [1]