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About the project
WP1 Project Management T1.1 Overall project coordination T1.2 Operational project management T1.3 Quality & innovation management, risk assessment T1.4 Research Data Management
WP2 Requirements T2.1 Definition of the requirements of the photonics technologies T2.2 Definition of the requirements of the photonics circuits T2.3 Definition of the requirements of the photonics applications T2.4 Sustainability improvement of the silicon photonics value chain
WP3 Photonics Technologies T3.1 SiPho Technology Development T3.2 Photonics substrates technology development T3.3 Integration of non-silicon materials at wafer level
WP4 Photonics Circuits T4.1 PIC100 circuits design T4.2 Path Finding to PIC200 circuits design T4.3 Photonics Tools T4.4 Photonics Packaging & Assembly T4.5 EIC Circuits Development
WP5 Photonics Applications T5.1 Demonstrators for Datacom & Hyperscaler T5.2 Demonstrators for AI Accelerator T5.3 Demonstrators for sensing T5.4 Telecom Demonstrator
WP6 Exploitation & Dissemination T6.1 External communication and dissemination of the results T6.2 Exploitation of STARLight results and business plans. T6.3 Education and Training
T5.2 Demonstrators for AI Accelerator
The purpose of this task is to harness the photonics components developed in WP3 and WP4 to realize fast and efficient photonics processor capable of performing tensor operations (multiply and accumulate, matrix vector multiplication etc.) with characteristics in terms of footprint, data rate and energy usage beyond the state of the art. Neural networks are the algorithms used by AI protocols, and tensor operations constitute the core of artificial neural networks, each layer of which can be modelized as a matrix vector multiplication followed by a nonlinear transfer function. The four sub-tasks will demonstrate four different approaches to realize fully photonic AI architectures.
Leader : UNIPV
Involved Partners : AUTH, UNIPV, THALES