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NoCArc 2024

https://www.nocarc.org/

17th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures

November 3rd 2024 – Texas, USA

To be held in conjunction with the

57th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture®

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***Call for Papers****

Network-on-Chips (NoCs) play a crucial role in determining the overall performance, energy usage, and reliability of many-core processing architectures. NoCs are part of an increasingly large number of products that we use every day – demonstrating that the NoC paradigm is practical, scalable, and can be adapted to support multiple computational paradigms, ranging from multiprocessing and reconfigurable computing to the emerging areas of AI and neuromorphic computing. The goal of the NoCArc Workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions related to the design, implementation, testing and application of NoCs and NoC based many-core architectures. Topics of specific interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

*Machine Learning (ML) and NoC-based systems*

ML for modeling and prediction

ML based algorithms, optimization, and design methodologies

Novel interconnections for domain specific ML architectures

Memory access for the NoC-based ML systems

*NoC Architecture and Implementation*

Topologies, routing, and flow control

Managing QoS

Reliability and 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

Debug, test and verification of NoCs and NoC-based systems

*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*

NoC support for designing and accessing memory subsystems

OS support for NoCs

Existing and novel programming models including shared memory, message passing, etc

Large-scale systems (datacenters and supercomputers) with NoC-based systems as building blocks

*NoC at System-level*

NoC for quantum architectures

Wireless, Optical, and RF

NoCs for 3D and 2.5D packages including Network-in-Package (NiP)

Approximate computing for NoCs and NoC-based systems

Chip-to-Chip Interconnects

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

***General Chair***

Abhijit Das, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain

Md Farhadur Reza, Eastern Illinois University, USA

*Program Co-Chairs*

José L. Abellán, University of Murcia, Spain

Alireza Monemi, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

***Publicity Chairs***

José Cano, University of Glasgow, UK

Dipika Deb, Intel Corporation, India

***Steering Committee***

Maurizio Palesi, University of Catania, Italy

Masoud Daneshtalab, Mälardalen University, Sweden

Xiaohang Wang, Guangzhou Institute of Advanced Technology, China

Davide Patti, University of Catania, Italy

Masoumeh (Azin) Ebrahimi, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Kun-Chih (Jimmy) Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Sergi Abadal, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Amlan Ganguly, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA

Salvatore Monteleone, Niccolò Cusano University, Italy

***Important Dates***

Abstract submission deadline: August 12, 2024

Full paper submission deadline: August 12, 2024

Author notification: September 2, 2024

Camera-ready version due: September 9, 2024

NoCArc Workshop will be held on November 3, 2024 in conjunction with the 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture® (MICRO-57)

CFP – DEADLINE EXTENDED (12 August 2024): 17th NoCArc Workshop at MICRO-57