First International Workshop on

Network on Chip Architectures

To be held in conjunction with the
41st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-41)
November 8th, 2008
Lake Como, Italy

NEW Proceedings are now available.

Index

• General Information
• Areas of Interest
• Submission Guidelines
• Important Dates
• Workshop Organizers
• Program Committee
• Final Program and Proceedings

General Information

Single chip embedded systems are becoming increasingly complex and heterogeneous. Such Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) require seamless integration of numerous IP cores performing different functions and operating at different clock frequencies. Network-on-Chip (NoC) is generally viewed as the ultimate solution for the design of modular and scalable communication architectures, and provides inherent support to the integration of heterogeneous cores through the standardization of the network interfaces. This workshop is focused on issues related to design, analysis and testing of on-chip networks.

Areas of Interest

The topics of specific interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Architectures and Topologies for NoCs and MPSoCs
• Routing algorithms and Router Micro-architectures
• Fault tolerance, reliability and testing issues
• Dynamic on-chip network reconfiguration
• Modeling and evaluation of on-chip networks
• Design space exploration and tradeoff analysis
• On-chip interconnection network simulators and emulators
• Industrial case studies of SoC designs using the NoC paradigm

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions related to design and implementation of multi-core systems on chip. Besides regular papers, papers describing work in progress or incomplete but sound new innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged.

Submission Guidelines

Both research and application-oriented papers are welcome. All papers should be submitted electronically via the web. Papers must be in PDF format and should include title, authors and affiliation, e-mail address of the contact author. Papers should be formatted in accordance with the following templates (standard double-column IEEE in A4 format):

• Class file for LaTeX, Template for LaTeX
• Template for Microsoft Word

Submissions must be limited to 6 pages. Papers deviating significantly from these paper size and formatting rules may be rejected without review. If the authors wish a blind review to be performed, then the author's name and affiliation should be omitted in the submitted paper. In case of any questions please contact the workshop organizers.

Important Dates

Workshop Organizers

• Maurizio Palesi, <mpalesi [at] diit.unict.it>
  Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni
  University of Catania, Italy
   
• Shashi Kumar, <Shashi.Kumar [at] jth.hj.se>
  Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering
  School of Engineering, Jönköping University, Sweden

Program Committee

• Federico Angiolini, iNoCs, Switzerland
• Davide Bertozzi, University of Ferrara, Italy
• Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, FORTH, Greece
• José Flich Cardo, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Ahmed Hemani, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Rickard Holsmark, Jönköping University, Sweden
• Anshul Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), India
• Shashi Kumar, Jönköping University, Sweden
• Marcello Lajolo, NEC Laboratories America, NJ, USA
• Zhonghai Lu, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Srinivasan Murali, iNoCs, Switzerland
• Juan Manuel Orduña Huertas, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
• Maurizio Palesi, University of Catania, Italy
• Davide Patti, University of Catania, Italy
• Partha P. Pande, Washington State University, USA
• Timothy M. Pinkston, University of Southern California, USA
• Carlo Pistritto, STMicroelectronics, Italy
• Tor Skeie, University of Oslo, Norway
• Juha-Pekka Soininen, VTT, Finland
• Vittorio Zaccaria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Final Program and Proceedings

 PDF version of the final program
 PDF version of the proceedings