NOCS 2013 - NOCS'13 International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip

The International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip communication technology, architecture, design methods and applications. NOCS aims at bringing together scientists and engineers working on NoC innovations 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:

? Network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration)
? Network design for 3D stacked logic and memory
? Mapping of applications onto NoCs
? Power and energy issues
? Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication
? NoC reliability issues
? OS support for NoCs
? Programming models
? Multi/many-core workload characterization & evaluation
? Network interface issues
? NoC case studies, application-specific NoC design
? Modeling, simulation, and synthesis of NoCs
? NoC support for memory and cache access
? NoC design methodologies and tools
? NoC Quality of Service
? NoCs for FPGAs and structured ASICs
? NoC support for CMP/MPSoCs
? Novel interconnect links/switches/routers
? Optical & RF for on-chip/in-package interconnects
? Signaling and circuit design for NoC links
? Physical design of interconnect and NoC
? Verification, debug & test of NoCs
? Metrics and benchmarks for NoCs

Electronic paper submission requires a full paper, up to 8 double-column IEEE format pages, including figures and references. Papers will be evaluated by the program committee in a blind review process 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, 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.