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We then present a heuristic-based search method to employ these 4-PAM modulators for designing DWDM-based SS, EDAC, and ODAC types of 4-PAM photonic links with two different design goals: (i) to attain the desired BER of 10\n            <jats:sup>-9<\/jats:sup>\n            at the expense of higher optical power and lower aggregate data rate and (ii) to attain maximum aggregate data rate with the desired BER of 10\n            <jats:sup>-9<\/jats:sup>\n            at the expense of longer packet transfer latency. We then employ our designed 4-PAM SS\u2013, 4-PAM EDAC\u2013, 4-PAM ODAC\u2013, and conventional OOK modulator\u2013based photonic links to constitute corresponding variants of the well-known CLOS and SWIFT PNoC architectures. We eventually compare our designed SS-, EDAC-, and ODAC-based variants of 4-PAM links and PNoCs with the conventional OOK links and PNoCs in terms of performance and energy efficiency in the presence of inter-channel crosstalk. 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