Abbrevation
NoCArc
City
Columbus
Country
United States
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Abstract

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&#046; 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&#8211;on&#8211;Chip (SoC) will be in<br>the order of thousand within the 2020&#046; As the number of communicating<br>elements increases, there is a need for an efficient, scalable and<br>reliable communication infrastructure&#046; 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&#046; The Network&#8211;on&#8211;Chip (NoC) design paradigm, based on a<br>modular packet&#8211;switched mechanism, can address many of the on&#8211;chip<br>communication issues such as performance limitations of long<br>interconnects, and integration of large number of PEs on a chip&#046;<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&#8211;core systems on chip&#046; The workshop will<br>focus on issues related to design, analysis and testing of on&#8211;chip<br>networks&#046;<br>Areas of Interest<br>The workshop will focus on issues related to design, analysis and<br>testing of on&#8211;chip networks&#046; 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 &amp; circuit design for NoC links<br>* NoC Analysis and Verification<br>Power, energy and thermal issues<br>* Benchmarking and experience with NoC&#8211;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&#8211;specific NoC design<br>* NoCs for FPGAs, structured ASICs, CMPs and MPSoCs<br>* NoC designs for heterogeneous systems<br>* On&#8211;Chip Communication Optimization<br>Communication efficient algorithms<br>* Multi/many&#8211;core communication workload characterization and<br>evaluation<br>* Energy efficient NoCs and energy minimization<br>* NoC at System&#8211;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&#8211;scale systems (datacenters, supercomputers)<br>with NoC&#8211;based systems as building blocks<br>Emerging NoC Technologies<br>* Wireless, Optical, and RF<br>* NoCs for 3D and 2&#046;5D packages<br>