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NoCArc
City
Atlanta
Country
United States
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<SPAN lang=EN&#8211;GB style="FONT&#8211;SIZE: 9pt; FONT&#8211;FAMILY: Tahoma"><SPAN lang=EN&#8211;US style="COLOR: black"></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN&#8211;GB style="FONT&#8211;SIZE: 9pt; FONT&#8211;FAMILY: Tahoma"></SPAN> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial>As the number of cores integrated into a System&#8211;on&#8211;Chip (SoC) increases, the role played by the interconnection system becomes more and more important&#046; The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors depicts the on&#8211;chip communication issues as the limiting factors for performance and power consumption in current and next generation SoCs&#046; Design in the era of ultra&#8211;deep submicron (UDSM) silicon is mainly dominated by issues concerning the communication infrastructure&#046; While SoCs consisting of tens of cores were common in the last decade, common predictions foresee that the next generation of many&#8211;core SoCs will contain hundreds or thousands of cores&#046; In the many&#8211;core era, as the number of cores residing on the same SoC increases significantly, the communication solutions also need to change drastically in order to support the new inter&#8211;core communication demands&#046; It is nowadays widely recognized that Network&#8211;on&#8211;Chip (NoC) architectures represent the most viable solution to cope with scalability issues of future many&#8211;cores systems and to meet performance, power and reliability requirements which characterize future ambient intelligent applications&#046;</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas&#8211;microsoft&#8211;com:office:office" /><FONT face=Arial> </FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial>The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions related to design and implementation of multi&#8211;core systems on chip&#046;</FONT></P> <P><STRONG>Keywords:</STRONG> </P> <LI>Architectures and Topologies for NoCs and MPSoCs <LI>Routing algorithms and Router Micro&#8211;architectures <LI>Fault tolerance, reliability and testing issues <LI>Dynamic on&#8211;chip network reconfiguration <LI>Modeling and evaluation of on&#8211;chip networks <LI>Design space exploration and tradeoff analysis <LI>On&#8211;chip interconnection network simulators and emulators <LI>Industrial case studies of SoC designs using the NoC paradigm </LI>