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 data center rack-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 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 and security issues and solutions
    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 Embedded High-Performance Computing Systems

    NoC for FPGA, ASIC, CPU-GPU, CMP, and Data Center on a Chip
    NoC designs for heterogeneous systems
    Scalable modeling of NoC
    Machine Learning (ML) Inspired NoC Design
    NoC for artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators
    NoC case studies, application-specific NoC design

Communication Analysis, Optimization, and Verification

    NoC performance analysis and Quality of Service
    Modeling, simulation, and synthesis of NoC
    Verification, debug, and test of NoC
    Benchmarks 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, and 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 (data center, edge, and fog computing) and NoC-based building blocks

Emerging NoC Technologies

    Optical, wireless, CNT, and other emerging technologies
    NoC for 2.5D and 3D packages
    NoC Architecture for chiplet-based integrated systems
    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 data center rack-scale networks
    All aspects of inter-chip and rack-scale network design