Objectives

PhoxTroT’s specific S&T objectives are:

OBJECTIVE 1:
Create the optimal synergies between different technology platforms streamlining their deployment towards Tb/s-scale, high-performance, low-cost and low-energy optical interconnect components and sub-systems.

OBJECTIVE 2:
Address optical interconnects in a holistic way and deploy the necessary design- and process-level framework for translating individual interconnect component- and subsystem technology advances into true system-level performance, cost and energy benefits.

OBJECTIVE 3:
Develop high performance, low-cost and low-energy generic building blocks that can be used for a broad range of applications along all relevant optical interconnect hierarchy layers.

OBJECTIVE 4:
Deploy a whole new class of high-performance intra-chip optical/electrical TSVs and chip-to-board / board-to-board interfaces.

OBJECTIVE 5:
Deploy a unified integration/packaging methodology for board-adaptable 3D System-in-Package (SiP) transceiver and router optochip fabrication.

OBJECTIVE 6:
Establish Optical Packet Switch Transport (OPST) and Advanced Modulation Format concepts as performance-enhancing and energy-reducing principles in the domain of datacom device technologies.

OBJECTIVE 7:
Demonstrate the “power” of its technology “food chain” by deploying and experimentally demonstrating three major prototype units with breakthrough performance and energy metrics for on-board, board-to-board and rack-to-rack interconnects

OBJECTIVE 8:
Bring European research and industry at the fore-front of the optical interconnect field through road mapping, dissemination and training activities, strengthening its collaborative framework with DataCenter and HPC organizations.