Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc)

Keynote talk by Ganapati Srinivasa, Principal Engineer, Intel Corp.

General Information

General information

As the number of cores integrated into a System-on-Chip (SoC) increases, the role played by the interconnection system becomes more and more important. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors depicts the on-chip communication issues as the limiting factors for performance and power consumption in current and next generation SoCs. Design in the era of ultra-deep submicron (UDSM) silicon is mainly dominated by issues concerning the communication infrastructure. While SoCs consisting of tens of cores were common in the last decade, common predictions foresee that the next generation of many-core SoCs will contain hundreds or thousands of cores. In the many-core era, as the number of cores residing on the same SoC increases significantly, the communication solutions also need to change drastically in order to support the new inter-core communication demands. It is nowadays widely recognized that Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures represent the most viable solution to cope with scalability issues of future many-cores systems and to meet performance, power and reliability requirements which characterize future ambient intelligent applications.

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.

Areas of Interest

Areas of interest

This workshop focuses on issues related to design, analysis and testing of on-chip networks. The topics of specific interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Areas of Interest
NoC Performance Analysis Dynamic On-chip Network Reconfiguration
Topology Selection and Synthesis for NoCs and MPSoCs Modeling and Evaluation of On-chip Networks
Routing Algorithms and Router Micro-architectures Design Space Exploration and Tradeoff Analysis
Guaranteed Throughput and Real Time On-chip Communication On-chip Interconnection Network Simulators and Emulators
Mapping of Cores to NoCs Validation, Debug and Test of NoCs and MpSoCs
Power and Energy Issues 3D NoC Architectures
Fault Tolerance and Reliability Issues Emerging Technologies and New Design Paradigms
Memory Architectures for NoC Industrial Case Studies of MpSoCs using the NoC Paradigm

Submission Guidelines

Submission guidelines

Both research and application-oriented papers are welcome. All papers should be submitted electronically by EasyChair. Papers must be in PDF format and should include title, authors and affiliation, e-mail address of the contact author.

Papers must be formatted in accordance to the ACM style. ACM Word or LaTeX style templates are available here. In addition, Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. In order to be published, accepted papers must show a bibliographic strip containing the copyright statement (details).

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

Important dates
Final paper submission deadline September 18, 2010
Author notification October 18, 2010
Camera-ready version due November 5, 2010
NoCArc Workshop December 4, 2010

Committees

Committees

General Chairs

   
Maurizio Palesi Shashi Kumar
University of Catania
Italy
Jönköping University
Sweden

Technical Program Chairs

   
Zhonghai Lu Umit Y. Ogras
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Sweden
Strategic CAD Labs. Intel Corp.
Hillsboro, OR

Technical Program Committee

Past Editions

NoCArc 2009 2nd International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc'09). Held in conjunction with the 42nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-42), December 12, 2009, New York City, USA. Past editions
NoCArc 2008 1st International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc'08). Held in conjunction with the 41st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-41), November 8, 2008, Lake Como, Italy. Past editions

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