AREAS OF INTEREST

The workshop will focus 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:

NoC Architecture and Implementation

  • Topologies, routing, and flow control
  • Managing QoS
  • Reliability issues
  • Security issues
  • Design methodologies and tools

NoC Analysis, Optimization, and Verification

  • Power, energy, and thermal issues
  • Benchmarking and experience with NoC-based systems
  • Modeling, simulation, and synthesis
  • Verification, debug, and test of NoCs and NoC-based systems
  • Metrics and benchmarks

NoC Applications

  • Mapping of applications onto NoCs
  • Real and industrial NoC case studies
  • NoCs for FPGAs, structured ASICs, CMPs, and MPSoCs
  • NoC designs for heterogeneous systems

NoC at System-level

  • Design of memory subsystem
  • NoC support for memory and cache access
  • OS support for NoCs
  • Programming models including shared memory, message passing, and novel programming models
  • Large-scale systems (datacenters and supercomputers) with NoC-based systems as building blocks

Emerging NoC Technologies

  • Wireless, Optical, and RF
  • NoCs for 3D and 2.5D packages
  • Approximate computing for NoCs and NoC-based systems
  • Chip-to-Chip Interconnects

Machine learning (ML) and NoC-based systems

  • Novel Interconnects for ML systems/accelerators
  • Memory access for NoC-based ML systems
  • NoC-based ML algorithm design

Besides regular papers, papers describing work in progress or incomplete but sound new innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged.