NOCS 2013

Submitted by Carole-Jean Wu
http://nocsymposium.org
Seventh ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
April 2013
Tempe, Arizona

The International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) is the premier event
dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip and chip-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, embedded systems, and design automation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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
– Physical design of interconnect & NoC

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

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
– Network design for 2.5D & 3D stacked logic and memory

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
– Multi/many-core workload characterization & evaluation
– Optical, RF, & emerging technologies for on-chip/inpackage interconnects
– Issues related to large-scale systems (datacenters, supercomputers) with
NoC-based systems as building blocks

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
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. Furthermore, NOCS will notify the
technical chair of the venue where the duplicate was submitted. Please see the
paper submission instructions for details.

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. A special section related to the
theme of the conference will be organized in one of the IEEE journals.

Important Dates
Abstract registration deadline Nov 19, 2012
Full paper submission deadline Nov 26, 2012
Proposals for tutorials, special sessions and panels Jan 11, 2013
Notification of acceptance Feb 1, 2013
Final version due Mar 1, 2013

Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs:
Karam S. Chatha, Arizona State University, USA
Chita R. Das, Penn State University, USA
Finance Chair:
Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State, USA
Registration Chair:
Mohammed Al Faruque, Siemens, USA
Publicity Chair:
Carole Jean Wu, Arizona State University, USA
Program Co-Chairs:
John Bainbridge, Sonics Inc., USA
Natalie Enright Jerger, University of Toronto, CA
Publications Chair:
Paul Gratz, Texas A&M, USA
Tutorials/Demo Chair
Zhonghai Lu, KTH, Sweden
Industrial Chair
Umit Ogras, Intel, USA

Contact Information
Karam Chatha, kchatha@asu.edu
John Bainbridge, jbainbridge@ieee.org
Chita Das, das@cse.psu.edu
Natalie Enright Jerger, enright@eecg.toronto.edu