Program

On each day, the conference schedule will run from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm UTC.

Please, note that:
(L) in front of a paper title refers to 20mins presentation time (15mins talk + 5mins Q&A)
(S) in front of a paper title refers to 10mins presentation time (8mins talk + 2mins Q&A)

Please check the Attend page for the instructions to access the symposium virtual space.

The Special Issue on NOCS 2022 - IEEE Design & Test (Volume: 39, Issue: 6, December 2022) is available online.

 
 

Thursday - October 13, 2022
Time (UTC) Video Activity
2:00 pm - 2:10 pm Opening Remarks
2:10 pm - 3:10 pm Keynote I: "Networks-on-Chips and Internet-of-Things Systems"
Speaker: Marilyn Wolf (University of Nebraska—Lincoln)
Chair: Mahdi Nikdast (Colorado State University)
3:10 pm - 3:20 pm   BREAK
3:20 pm - 4:20 pm Special Session I: "Design Challenges of Intra- and Inter- Chiplet Interconnection"
Organizers: Chixiao Chen (Fudan University), Jieming Yin (Lehigh University), Yarui Peng (University of Arkansas), Maurizio Palesi (University of Catania), Wenxu Cao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Letian Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Amit Kumar Singh (University of Essex), Haocong Zhi (South China University of Technology), and Xiaohang Wang (Zhejiang University)
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3203005
4:20 pm - 4:35 pm   BREAK
4:35 pm - 5:35 pm Regular Session I: "Say Goodbye to Deadlocks!"
Chair: Ryan G. Kim (Colorado State University)
4:35 pm

(L) Traversal Packets: Opportunistic Bypass Packets for Deadlock Recovery
Zhiqiang Chen, Rangyu Deng, Kun Zeng, Xiaoqiang Ni, and Hongwei Zhou
[Best Paper Award Winner]

DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3204201 | Presentation:

4:55 pm

(L) Deadlock-Freedom in Computational Neuroscience Simulators
Vida Sobhani, Kevin Kauth, Tim Stadtmann, and Tobias Gemmeke
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3204199

5:15 pm

(L) JARVA: Joint Application-Aware Oblivious Routing and Static Virtual Channel Allocation
Uday Mallappa, Chung-Kuan Cheng, and Bill Lin
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3202994 | Presentation:

5:35 pm - 5:50 pm   BREAK
5:50 pm - 7:00 pm Regular Session II: "NoCs modeling and security!"
Chair: Mayank Parasar (Samsung, USA)
5:50 pm

(L) SynFull-RTL: Evaluation Methodology for RTL NoC Designs
Neiel Leyva, Alireza Monemi, and Enrique Vallejo
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3202996 | Presentation:

6:10 pm

(L) Eavesdropping Attack Detection using Machine Learning in Network-on-Chip Architectures
Chamika Sudusinghe, Subodha Charles, Sapumal Ahangama, and Prabhat Mishra
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3202995

6:30 pm

(L) BHT-NoC: Blaming Hardware Trojans in NoC Routers
Bharat Bisht and Shirshendu Das
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3202998

6:50 pm

(S) NOICER : Mitigating NoC Side-Channel Attacks using encrypted addresses and remapping
Anurag Kar, Xueyang Liu, Yonghae Kim, Gururaj Saileshwar, Hyesoon Kim, and Tushar Krishna

 
 

Friday - October 14, 2022
Time (UTC) Video Activity
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Keynote II: Reflections on 21 years of NoCs
Speaker: William Dally (NVIDIA and Stanford University)
Chair: Radu Marculescu (University of Texas, Austin)
3:00 pm - 3:10 pm   BREAK
3:10 pm - 3:50 pm Regular Session III: "NoCs and Emerging Applications"
Chair: Cédric Killian (Université de Rennes 1 and IRISA/INRIA, France)
3:10 pm

(L) RB-OLITS: A Worst-case Reorder Buffer Size Reduction Method for 3D-NoC
Zhenmin Li, Yuqing Ma, Gaoming Du, Xiaolei Wang, Yukun Song, and Duoli Zhang
[Best Paper Award Candidate]

DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3202993 | Presentation:

3:30 pm

(L) A Many-ported and Shared Memory Architecture for High-Performance ADAS SoCs
Hao Luan, Yu Yao, and Chang Huang
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3202997

3:50 pm - 4:00 pm   BREAK
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Special Session II: "Electronic, Wireless, and Photonic Network-on-Chip Security: Challenges and Countermeasures"
Organizers: Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University), John Jose (IIT Guwahati), and Sujay Deb (IIIT Delhi)
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3203017
5:00 pm - 5:10 pm   BREAK
5:10 pm - 6:40 pm NOCS15++: Anniversary Panel for 15++ Years of NOCS
Organizer & Moderator: Radu Marculescu (University of Texas, Austin)
Participants: William Dally (NVIDIA and Stanford University), Axel Jantsch (TU Wien), Michael Kishinevsky (Intel), and Umit Ogras (University of Wisconsin)
6:40 pm - 6:50 pm Closing Remarks and Best Paper Award announcement

 
 

Keynote Talks


Keynote I

Date: Thursday - October 13, 2022
Time: 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm (UTC)
Speaker: Marilyn Wolf (University of Nebraska—Lincoln)
Title: Networks-on-Chips and Internet-of-Things Systems
Chair: Mahdi Nikdast (Colorado State University)
Video:

Abstract:
Networks-on-chips are well established as essential components of multiprocessors in both the workstation and embedded spaces. However, NoCs are not widely used in Internet-of-Things computing platforms. Network-on-chip technology should be well-suited to some of the requirements of this domain: heterogeneous computing, multiple circuit and device technologies. However, the cost of current NoC and heterogeneous technologies is out of reach for most IoT applications. This talk will explore the barriers to the deployment of networks-on-chips on IoT computing platforms and possible solutions.

Bio:


Marilyn Wolf is Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Director of the School of Computing at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. She received her BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1981, and 1984. She was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989, was on the faculty of Princeton University from 1989 to 2007 and was Farmer Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems and GRA Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2019. Her research interests include cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, embedded computing, embedded computer vision, and VLSI systems. She has received the IEEE Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, the IEEE Computer Society Goode Memorial Award, the ASEE Terman Award, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and a Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society. She has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. She became an action figure in 2018.

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Keynote II

Date: Friday - October 14, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (UTC)
Speaker: William Dally (NVIDIA and Stanford University)
Title: Reflections on 21 years of NoCs
Chair: Radu Marculescu (University of Texas, Austin)
Video:

Abstract:
In the 21 years since the "Route Packets, Not Wires" paper was published at DAC 2001, NoCs have become ubiquitous. They are used in GPUs, CPUs, and all kinds of specialized accelerators, largely replacing buses as the communication backbone of digital systems. An efficient NoC is critical to the performance and energy efficiency of a modern digital system. This talk will explore the best way to build a NoC today given our 21 years of experience. Things should be kept simple and fast. To minimize delay and energy, the topology should be a mesh, perhaps with diagonals. An extremely simple self-timed router with 100ps latency makes minimizing hop count irrelevant. Latency is comparable to dedicated wires. Simple two-cycle request-acknowledge flow control suffices. There is no need for virtual channels to multiplex wires. Wires are plentiful. Optimized circuits to drive the wires are critical for energy efficiency. Efficient synchronizers are critical to optimize latency. The talk will close with some future directions for research on NoCs/NoPs.

Bio:


Bill Dally joined NVIDIA in January 2009 as chief scientist, after spending 12 years at Stanford University, where he was chairman of the computer science department. Dally and his Stanford team developed the system architecture, network architecture, signaling, routing and synchronization technology that is found in most large parallel computers today. Dally was previously at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1986 to 1997, where he and his team built the J-Machine and the M-Machine, experimental parallel computer systems that pioneered the separation of mechanism from programming models and demonstrated very low overhead synchronization and communication mechanisms. From 1983 to 1986, he was at California Institute of Technology (CalTech), where he designed the MOSSIM Simulation Engine and the Torus Routing chip, which pioneered "wormhole" routing and virtual-channel flow control. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM, and has received the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, the IEEE Seymour Cray Award, and the ACM Maurice Wilkes award. He has published over 250 papers, holds over 120 issued patents, and is an author of four textbooks. Dally received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, a master’s in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from CalTech. He was a cofounder of Velio Communications and Stream Processors.

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Special Sessions


Special Session I

Date: Thursday - October 13, 2022
Time: 3:20 pm - 4:20 pm (UTC)
Title: Design Challenges of Intra- and Inter- Chiplet Interconnection
Organizers: Chixiao Chen (Fudan University), Jieming Yin (Lehigh University), Yarui Peng (University of Arkansas), Maurizio Palesi (University of Catania), Wen-Xu Cao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Letian Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Amit Kumar Singh (University of Essex), Haocong Zhi (South China University of Technology), and Xiaohang Wang (Zhejiang University)
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3203005

Agenda

Opening remarks
Xiaohang Wang

Simulation methodology for chiplet-based many-core system
Xiaohang Wang

An all-digital 2.5D intra-chiplet communication PHY
Chixiao Chen

In-package network design - An architecture's perspective
Jieming Yin

Optimizations on modular turn restriction scheme
Wen-Xu Cao

Chiplet-package co-design with E3DA holistic and in-context EDA flows
Yarui Peng

Multi-objective hardware-mapping co-optimisation for chiplet-based DNN accelerators
Maurizio Palesi

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Special Session II

Date: Thursday - October 14, 2022
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (UTC)
Title: Electronic, Wireless, and Photonic Network-on-Chip Security: Challenges and Countermeasures
Organizers: Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University), John Jose (IIT Guwahati), and Sujay Deb (IIIT Delhi)
DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2022.3203017

Agenda

Opening remarks
Sudeep Pasricha

Hardware Trojan Management Approaches in Electronic NoC based SoCs
John Jose

Security Threats in Wireless NoC and Efficient Countermeasures
Sujay Deb

Hacking Light: Enabling Security in Photonic NoC Architectures
Sudeep Pasricha

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