Abbrevation
NOCS
City
Nara
Country
Japan
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Abstract

The International Symposium on Networks&#8211;on&#8211;Chip (NOCS) is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on&#8211;chip, chip&#8211;scale, and multichip package scale communication technology, architecture, design methods, applications and systems&#046; NOCS brings together scientists and engineers working on NoC innovations and applications from inter&#8211;related research communities, including computer architecture, networking, circuits and systems, packaging, embedded systems, and design automation&#046; Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>NoC Architecture and Design<br>Network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration)<br>NoC Quality of Service<br>Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication<br>Network interface issues<br>NoC design methodologies and tools<br>Mapping of applications onto NoCs<br>Signaling and circuit design for NoC links<br>NoC at the Un&#8211;Core and System&#8211;level<br>Design of memory subsystem (un&#8211;core) including memory controllers, caches, cache coherence protocols, and NoCs<br>NoC support for memory and cache access<br>OS support for NoCs<br>Programming models including shared memory, message passing, and novel models<br>Issues related to large&#8211;scale systems (datacenters, supercomputers) with NoC&#8211;based systems as building blocks<br>Novel NoC Technologies<br>New physical interconnect technologies, e&#046;g&#046;, carbon nanotubes, wireless NoCs, through&#8211;silicon, etc<br>NoCs for 3D and 2&#046;5D packages<br>Package&#8211;specific NoC design<br>Optical, RF, and emerging technologies for on&#8211;chip/in&#8211;package interconnects<br>NoC Application<br>NoC case studies<br>Application&#8211;specific NoC designs<br>NoC designs for heterogeneous many&#8211;core systems, fused CPU&#8211;GPU architectures, FPGA&#8211;based systems, etc<br>NoC Analysis, Verification, and Modeling<br>Modeling, simulation, and synthesis of NoCs<br>Verification, debug, and test of NoCs<br>Metrics and benchmarks for NoCs<br>Scalable modeling of NoCs<br>NoC Optimization<br>For power/energy efficiency<br>For thermal efficiency and darksilicon<br>For dependable architectures<br>For communication efficient algorithms<br>