The International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip, package-scale, chip-to-chip, and datacenter rack-scale communication technology, architecture, design methods, applications and systems. NOCS brings together scientists and engineers working on network-on-chip (NoC) innovations and applications from inter-related research communities, including discrete optimization and algorithms, computer architecture, networking, circuits and systems, packaging, embedded systems, and design automation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

NoC Architecture and Implementation

    Network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration)
    Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication
    NoC reliability issues and solutions
    Security issues and solutions in NoC architectures
    Power/thermal issues at NoC un-core and system-level
    Network interface issues and solutions
    Signaling and circuit design for NoC links and routers

NoC for High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems

    NoC design for Deep Learning
    Mapping of emerging applications and systems onto NoC
    NoC case studies, application-specific NoC design
    NoC for FPGA, structured ASIC, CMP and MPSoC
    NoC designs for heterogeneous systems
    NoC for CPU-GPU and data-center-on-a-chip (DCoC)
    Scalable modeling of NoC
    Machine learning for NoC and NoC-based Systems

Communication Analysis, Optimization, and Verification

    NoC performance analysis and Quality of Service
    Modeling, simulation, and synthesis of NoC
    Verification, debug and test of NoC
    NoC design and simulation methodologies and tools
    Benchmarks, experiences on NoC-based hardware
    Communication-efficient algorithms
    Communication workload characterization & evaluation

NoC at the Un-Core and System-level

    Design of memory subsystem (un-core) including memory controllers, caches, cache coherence protocols in NoC
    NoC for new memory/storage technologies
    NoC support for processing-in-memory
    OS support for NoC
    Programming models for NoCs
    Interactions between large-scale systems (datacenter, edge and fog computing) and NoC-based building blocks

Emerging and Novel NoC Technologies

    Optical, wireless, CNT, and other emerging technologies
    NoC for 2.5D and 3D packages
    Package-specific NoC design
    Network coding and compression solutions
    Approximate computing for NoC and NoC-based systems

Inter/Intra-Chip and Rack-Scale Network

    Unified inter/intra-chip networks
    Hybrid chip-scale and datacenter rack-scale networks
    All aspects of inter-chip and rack-scale network design