NoC Architecture and Design

Network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration)

NoC Quality of Service

Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication

Network interface issues

NoC design methodologies and tools

Mapping of applications onto NoCs

Signaling and circuit design for NoC links

NoC at the Un-Core and System-level

Design of memory subsystem (un-core) including memory controllers, caches, cache coherence protocols, and NoCs

NoC support for memory and cache access

OS support for NoCs

Programming models including shared memory, message passing, and novel models

Issues related to large-scale systems (datacenters, supercomputers) with NoC-based systems as building blocks

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, and emerging technologies for on-chip/in-package interconnects

NoC Application

NoC case studies

Application-specific NoC designs

NoC designs for heterogeneous many-core systems, fused CPU-GPU architectures, FPGA-based systems, etc

NoC Analysis, Verification, and Modeling

Modeling, simulation, and synthesis of NoCs

Verification, debug, and test of NoCs

Metrics and benchmarks for NoCs

Scalable modeling of NoCs

NoC Optimization

For power/energy efficiency

For thermal efficiency and darksilicon

For dependable architectures

For communication efficient algorithms