NOCS 2015

Submitted by Maurizio Palesi
http://nocs2015.eecs.wsu.edu/

9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS 2015)
Vancouver, Canada
September 28 – 30, 2015
The International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) is the
premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip,
chip-scale, and multichip package scale communication technology,
architecture, design methods, applications and systems. NOCS
brings together scientists and engineers working on NoC
innovations and applications from inter-related research
communities, including computer architecture, networking,
circuits and systems, packaging, embedded systems, and design
automation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. NoC Architecture and Implementation
– Network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration)
– NoC Quality of Service
– Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication
– NoC reliability issues
– Network interface issues
– NoC design methodologies and tools
– Signaling & circuit design for NoC links

2. NoC Analysis and Verification
– Power, energy & thermal issues(at the NoC, un-core and/or
system-level)
– Benchmarking & experience with NoC-based hardware
– Modeling, simulation, and synthesis of NoCs
– Verification, debug & test of NoCs
– Metrics and benchmarks for NoCs

3. Novel NoC Technologies
– New physical interconnect technologies, e.g., carbon
nanotubes, wireless NoCs, through-silicon, etc.
– NoCs for 3D and 2.5D packages
– Package-specific NoC design
– Optical, RF, & emerging technologies for on-chip/in-package
interconnects

4. NoC Application
– Mapping of applications onto NoCs
– NoC case studies, application-specific NoC design
– NoCs for FPGAs, structured ASICs, CMPs and MPSoCs
– NoC designs for heterogeneous systems, fused CPU-GPU
architectures, etc
– Scalable modeling of NoCs

5. NoC at the Un-Core and System-level
– Design of memory subsystem (un-core) including memory
controllers, caches, cache coherence protocols & NoCs
– NoC support for memory and cache access
– OS support for NoCs
– Programming models including shared memory, message passing
and novel programming models
– Issues related to large-scale systems (datacenters,
supercomputers) with NoC-based systems as building blocks

6. On-Chip Communication Optimization
– Communication efficient algorithms
– Multi/many-core communication workload characterization &
evaluation
– Energy efficient NoCs and energy minimization

Electronic paper submission requires a full paper, up to 8
double-column IEEE format pages, including figures and
references. The program committee in a double-blind review
process will evaluate papers based on scientific merit,
innovation, relevance, and presentation.Submitted papers must
describe original work that has not been published before or is
under review by another conference or journal at the same
time. Each submission will be checked for any significant
similarity to previously published works or for simultaneous
submission to other archival venues, and such papers will be
rejected. Please see the paper submission instructions for
details.This year will also include one or more industrial
sessions on the architecture of future NoC platforms. The
objective of these sessions is to provide a forum for industry
leaders to share their experiences and perspectives on the
technical challenges facing future platforms and discuss
potential solutions. Check the submission page for details on
submissions to this session. These sessions will feature a small
number of papers (4-6) covering experiences from industrial
design and development.

Proposals for tutorials, special sessions, and panels are also
invited. Please see the detailed submission instructions for
paper, tutorial, special sessions, and panel proposals at the
submission page.

IMPORTANT DATES
– Abstract registration deadline February, 27th, 2015
– Full paper submission deadline March 6th, 2015
– Notification of acceptance May 5th, 2015
– Final version due June 1st, 2015
– Industry Session submission deadline March 23rd 2015

ORGANIZERS
General Co-Chairs
– Andre Ivanov, University of British Columbia
– Diana Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University
Program Co-Chairs
– Partha Pratim Pande, Washington State University
– José Flich, Universitat Politècnica de València