NOCS 2014 - The International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS)

The International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip and chip-scale communication technology, architecture, design methods, applications and systems. NOCS brings together scientists and engineers working on NoC innovations and applications 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:
NoC Architecture and Implementation
Network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration)
NoC Quality of Service
Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication
NoC reliability issues
Network interface issues
NoC design methodologies and tools
Signaling & circuit design for NoC links
Physical design of interconnect & NoC
NoC Application
Mapping of applications onto NoCs
NoC case studies, application-specific NoC design
NoCs for FPGAs, structured ASICs, CMPs and MPSoCs
NoC designs for heterogeneous systems, fused CPU-GPU
architectures, etc
Network design for 2.5D & 3D stacked logic and memory
NoC Analysis and Verification
Power, energy & thermal issues (at the NoC, un-core and/or system-level)
Benchmarking & experience with real NoC-based hardware
Modeling, simulation, and synthesis of NoCs
Verification, debug & test of NoCs
Metrics and benchmarks for NoCs
NoC at the un-core and system-level
Design of memory subsystem (un-core) including memory controllers, caches, cache coherence protocols & NoCs
NoC support for memory and cache access
OS support for NoCs
Programming models including shared memory, message passing and novel programming models
Multi/many-core workload characterization & evaluation
Optical, RF, & emerging technologies for on-chip/inpackage interconnects
Issues related to large-scale systems (datacenters, supercomputers) with NoC-based systems as building blocks