A Review of Optical Routers in Photonic Networks-on-Chip: A Literature Survey

Subject Areas : System Integration

Negin Bagheri Renani ¹ , Elham Yaghoubi ²

1 - Computer Engineering Faculty, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
2 - Computer Engineering Faculty , Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Received: 2018-06-19 Accepted : 2018-09-03 Published : 2018-08-01

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