[Please apologize for any cross-postings] ================================ Seventh International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures To be held in conjunction with the 47h Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-47) December 13 (or 14), 2014 Cambridge, UK http://nocarc.unikore.it/ ================================ General Information Modern Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) today contains hundreds of Intellectual Properties (IPs)/cores, including, programmable processors, co-processors, accelerators, application-specific IPs, peripherals, memories, reconfigurable logic, and even analog blocks. We are now entered in the so called many-core era. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors foresees that the number of Processing Elements (PEs) that will be integrated into a SoC will be in the order of thousand within the 2020. As the number of communicating elements increases, there is a need for an efficient, scalable and reliable communication infrastructure. In addition, with shrinking technology geometrics to deep submicron scale, the communication delay and power consumption of global interconnections become the major bottleneck. The Network-on-Chip (NoC) design paradigm, based on a modular packet-switched mechanism, can address many of the on-chip communication issues such as performance limitations of long interconnects, and integration of large number of PEs on a chip. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions related to design and implementation of many-core systems-on-chip with a special focus on on-chip communication infrastructures and issues related to design, analysis and testing of on-chip networks. We also look for new type of NoC-based computing paradigms inspired by biological systems to solve hard computational problems such as learning, recognition, and complex decision making. Areas of Interest The workshop will focus on issues related to design, analysis and testing of on-chip networks. We also look for new type of NoC-based computing paradigms inspired by biological systems to solve hard computational problems such as learning, recognition, and complex decision making. The topics of specific interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Topologies selection and synthesis for NoCs and MPSoCs * Routing algorithms and router micro-architectures * QoS in on-chip communication * Mapping of cores to NoC slots * Power and energy issues * Fault tolerance and reliability issues * Memory architectures for NoC * Autonomous SoCs and Dynamic on-chip network reconfiguration * Modeling and evaluation of on-chip networks * On-chip interconnection network simulators and emulators * Analytical analysis methods for NoC performance and other properties * Verification, debug and test of NoC * 3D NoC architectures * Emerging technologies and new design paradigms * Industrial case studies of SoC designs using the NoC paradigm * Heterogeneity * NoC-based Neuromorphic Architectures * NoC-based HPC devices Besides regular papers, papers describing work in progress or incomplete but sound new innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. Submission Guidelines Both research and application-oriented papers are welcome. All papers should be submitted electronically by EasyChair. Submissions must be limited to 6 pages. Please, visit the workshop webpage (http://www.unikore.it/nocarc/submission.html) for additional information about the submission process. Important Dates . Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2014 . Paper submission deadline: September 8, 2014 * Author notification: October 7, 2014 * Camera-ready version due: October 18, 2014 * NoCArc Workshop: December 13 (or 14), 2014 Best Regards, Workshop Organizers General Co-Chairs: Maurizio Palesi <http://www.unikore.it/mpalesi/> , Masoud Daneshtalab <http://users.utu.fi/masdan/> , Xiaohang Wang <https://sites.google.com/site/xiaohangwang1/> TPC Co-Chairs: Farhad Mehdipour <http://www.c.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~farhad/> , Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos <http://utopia.duth.gr/~dimitrak/> Publicity Chair: Masoumeh Ebrahimi <http://users.utu.fi/masebr/>