SPECIAL SESSION ON ON-CHIP PARALLEL AND NETWORK-BASED SYSTEMS (OCPNBS)

On-chip parallel and network-based system design to achieve functionality with low energy-speed product requires larger device count SoC design, multi block function design methodology, architectures and energy evaluation schemes. Such systems, which are emerging as the architecture of choice for future high performance processors, require high performance interconnects which are necessary to satisfy the data supply needs of all cores. This session is dedicated to research on on-chip communication technology, architecture, design methods and applications, bringing together scientists and engineers working on on-chip innovations from related research communities, including parallel computer architecture, networking, and embedded systems. Original papers describing new and previously unpublished results are solicited on all aspects of on-chip parallel and networked system technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • On-chip network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration, ...)
  • Network design for 3D stacked logic and memory
  • Processor allocation and scheduling in CMPs
  • Mapping of applications onto NoCs
  • NoC reliability issues
  • OS and compiler support for NoCs
  • Performance and power issues in NoCs
  • Metrics, benchmarks, and trace analysis for NoCs
  • Multi/many-core workload characterization and evaluation
  • Modeling and simulation of on-chip parallel and networked systems
  • Synthesis, verification, debug and test of SoCs
  • NoC support for memory and cache access
  • SoC and NoC design methodologies and tools
  • Network support for SoC quality of service
  • On-chip systems for FPGAs and structured ASICs
  • NoC support for CMP/MPSoCs
  • Floorplan-aware NoC architecture optimization
  • Application-specific NoC design
  • Networked SoC case studies
  • On-chip parallel programming models and tools
  • Reconfigurable SoCs and NoCs
  • Memory system design and optimizations for SoCs
  • Early reports on system prototypes details
  • SIMD parallel VLSI computing
  • I/O interconnects and support for SoCs
  • and other related topics

Programme Committee:

  • Paul Ampadu, University of Rochester, USA
  • Federico Angiolini, Switzerland
  • Hossein Asadi, Sharif Univ of Tech, Iran
  • Faruk Bagci, Kuwait Universtiy, Kuwait
  • Mohamed Bakhouya, University of technology of Belfort Montbeliard, France
  • Amirali Baniasadi, University of Victoria, Canada
  • Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST UMR CNRS 6174, France
  • Skevos Evripidou, Univerity of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Diana Goehringer, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), Germany
  • Thomas Hollstein, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  • Michael Huebner, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
  • Farshad Khunjush, Shiraz University, Iran
  • Somayyeh Koohi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • Shashi Kumar, Jonkoping University, Sweden
  • Seung Eun Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea
  • Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Samia Loucif, AlHosn University, United Arab Emirates
  • Lewis Mackenzie, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Farhad Mehdipour, Kyushu University, Japan
  • Sina Meraji, McGill University, Canada
  • Mehdi Modarressi, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Siamak Mohammadi, School of ECE, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Abbas Nayebi, IPM & Sharif Univ of Tech, Iran
  • Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
  • Martin Radetzki, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Luca Ramini, University of Ferrara, Italy
  • Vincenzo Rana, Politecnico di Milano, Switzerland
  • Fredy Rivera, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
  • Marcos Sanchez-Elez, Universidad Complutense, Spain
  • Nozar Tabrizi, Kettering University, USA
  • Wim Vanderbauwhede, University of Glagow, UK
  • Hamid Zarandi, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran