Current multicore architectures formed by tens of processing cores<br>will be soon replaced by the next generation of manycore architectures<br>with hundreds of cores. In fact, the International Technology Roadmap<br>for Semiconductors foresees that the number of Processing Elements<br>(PEs) that will be integrated into a System–on–Chip (SoC) will be in<br>the order of thousand within the 2020. As the number of communicating<br>elements increases, there is a need for an efficient, scalable and<br>reliable communication infrastructure. As technology geometries shrink<br>to the deep submicron regime, however, the communication delay and<br>power consumption of global interconnections become the major<br>bottleneck. The Network–on–Chip (NoC) design paradigm, based on a<br>modular packet–switched mechanism, can address many of the on–chip<br>communication issues such as performance limitations of long<br>interconnects, and integration of large number of PEs on a chip.<br>The goal of NoCArc workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to<br>present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions related to design<br>and implementation of multi–core systems on chip. The workshop will<br>focus on issues related to design, analysis and testing of on–chip<br>networks.<br>Areas of Interest<br>The workshop will focus on issues related to design, analysis and<br>testing of on–chip networks. The topics of specific interest for the<br>workshop include, but are not limited to:<br>NoC Architecture and Implementation<br>* Topologies, routing, flow control<br>* Managing QoS<br>* Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication<br>* Reliability issues<br>* Design methodologies and tools<br>* Signaling & circuit design for NoC links<br>* NoC Analysis and Verification<br>Power, energy and thermal issues<br>* Benchmarking and experience with NoC–based systems<br>* Modeling, simulation, and synthesis<br>* Verification, debug and test<br>* Metrics and benchmarks<br>* NoC Application<br>Mapping of applications onto NoCs<br>* NoC case studies, application–specific NoC design<br>* NoCs for FPGAs, structured ASICs, CMPs and MPSoCs<br>* NoC designs for heterogeneous systems<br>* On–Chip Communication Optimization<br>Communication efficient algorithms<br>* Multi/many–core communication workload characterization and<br>evaluation<br>* Energy efficient NoCs and energy minimization<br>* NoC at System–level<br>Design of memory subsystem<br>* NoC support for memory and cache access<br>* OS support for NoCs<br>* Programming models including shared memory, message passing and<br>novel programming models<br>* Issues related to large–scale systems (datacenters, supercomputers)<br>with NoC–based systems as building blocks<br>Emerging NoC Technologies<br>* Wireless, Optical, and RF<br>* NoCs for 3D and 2.5D packages<br>
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